<p>number 88 .</p>
<p>young_one, it's not sour grapes. it's just that newsweek's (or that guy's) system of judging which high schools are the "best" simply by counting the ratio of AP exams administered, as oppoesed to the pass/score rate, is meaningless. i couldn't care less how many APs are taken; I want to know how many 4s or 5s there are total, or more importantly, how many pass.</p>
<p>yes, there are many schools up on that list that truly deserve it (like mine), but there are many more that have grossly inflated numbers.</p>
<p>503
the rankings are completely meanibgless though</p>
<p>Isn't CT supposed to have one of the top educational systems in the country (along with MA and some others that I don't know off the top of my head). Why only 8, my school could be ranked, I doubt it, but that does not make any sense to me how it only has 8. Yeah it is a small state, but damn.</p>
<p>I think my school has been dropping ranks the last few years. Oh well.</p>
<p>ya my school is number 5. I'm actually quite surprised.</p>
<p>There is one school near me at 400 something that has 4 honors classes total and 3 APs. It does have a low dropout rate but that's because the parents in that district just move kids who dropout so technically it's not a dropout. It's a really crappy highschool and that is how I know the ratings are b.s. lol.</p>
<p>i was JUST wondering why Stuyvesant wasn't there.
speaking of it, i took the test for Stuy but i never got the results and it's not like i didn't horrble b/c they give u results no matter what you got. argh</p>
<p>Sweet!!!!</p>
<p>Last year we were #298, now we're 138!!! Next year when I'm in 9th grade, I bet we'll be in the top 100 =D</p>
<h1>2 school in MN woot woot</h1>
<p>Is it bad if my school isn't on there?</p>
<p>my former public school went from 32-42 in the last yr...it was 50-something the year i attended the public school districts hs(im not a ps student ne more) that my parents pay taxes for is nowhere in the top 200</p>
<p>Jarn:</p>
<p>I don't think it's bad if you school isn't on the list. It's all about what you personally make of the opportunities you're given.</p>
<p>Oh awesome, my school is on the "The Public Elites" list. ^_^ I had no idea. Thanks!</p>
<p>My school will never be on there. We require students to file rigorous applications and take entrance exams to even get admittance into AP classes.</p>
<p>haha Brooklyn tech is not a public elite. Bronx Science ftw!</p>
<p>Of all the crappy lists out there, this one always manages to take the cake. I'm not saying that because my high school wasn't on there (it should have been). I'm saying it because it's true. The criteria is absolute bogus. You'd think freakin' Newsweek would have better statisticians on their staff or at least at their disposal. </p>
<p>Take my high school, for example. The average ACT score at my high school is 24.9, higher than all but one other public high school in the state (In Wisconsin, a state whose public school system is consistently ranked in the top 5). The mean SAT score is over 1800. 87% percent of kids who took AP classes at my school last year passed them. More than 75% of our teachers have a masters degree or higher. 93% of my graduating class went on to college, including places like Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Duke and other elite schools ( the preceding stats are per the school website). Many teachers have degrees from private east coast schools. My AP English teacher last year had a degree from Oxford. And yet, it is suspiciously absent from the list.</p>
<p>I'm sure there are many, many more schools that deserve to be on the list, or at least a higher ranking. New Trier, for example, is often called "America's elite public high school," and has graduated the likes of Donald Rumsfeld, Charleton Heston, nobel prize winners and other luminaries. And yet, it comes in at an abyssmal 435. What a bull***** list.</p>
<p>Yup. Same with my school and we're in the thousands (probably because we have average # of APs and no IB). Check out where my grade's going in the thread below this one...</p>
<p>Haha, our superintendent must being going nutz.</p>
<p>2003-#5
2004-there was no list
2005-#14
2006-#27
2007-#33</p>
<p>Not a good trend, though I don't think it really matters. Our superintendent was outraged (or so the teachers say) when New York State did the annual report thing and wrote we were "a failing school," due to the declining progress. It would be nice to be in the top five again though, since I was still in middle school (8th grade) in 2003 when we were #5, and so I don't have that bragging right...oh well.</p>
<p>1998-56
2003-255
2004-unknown
2005-186
2006-326
2007-off the list
This is a most interesting list; we succeeded in dropping 911 places in one year.</p>
<p>I'm curious, does anyone know what the "Subs. Lunch" and "E & E" categories mean?</p>