<p>This ranking is both unfair and useless. I mean, it doesnt count so many good high schools out there, including private, parochial, and magnet schools. While I can understand not counting magnet schools, I cant understand not counting parochial schools. Whatever they say, my school is better than many of the Long Island schools in the top 100. We beat their asses in Science Olympiad.</p>
<p>Hah...my school has 4 APs...go athletic-driven spending!</p>
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his ranking is both unfair and useless. I mean, it doesnt count so many good high schools out there, including private, parochial, and magnet schools. While I can understand not counting magnet schools, I cant understand not counting parochial schools. Whatever they say, my school is better than many of the Long Island schools in the top 100. We beat their asses in Science Olympiad.
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<p>This is a list of public high schools- it makes sense to keep off private high schools by definition. Also, one competition is no smart way to judge an entire school. </p>
<p>It's obviously how any ranking system came to be if you check who they're ranking, the data, and they're methodology. This list makes perfect sense- how true, accurate, or useful it is is fairly questionable in my opinion.</p>
<p>i can't find any schools from hawaii...was anyone else able to?</p>
<p>i can't find any schools from hawaii...was anyone else able to?</p>
<p>sfgiants: My school is ranked 26th.</p>
<p>golden bear: What we need to know is the student populations and the funding of each school.</p>
<p>My school is ranked 26, but unlike most of the tip top schools we are a large school of 2600 kids and get almost no funding because we are a good schools while lousy public schools get double or triple our funding, run down facilities. About 15 of our teachers' salaries are either paid in full or partially paid by parent and alumni donations. I wonder how many of the other top schools gets shafted like we do and would be that highly ranked.</p>
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<p>wow, fellow lowellites</p>
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This year they actually included Public Academic Magnets which had previously been excluded. I guess they finally had to admit that leaviung off the top performing high schools just because they had an entrance requirement might not be acurate or fair.
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<p>They included some academic magnets, but not all. Wanna know what their criteria for determing which magnets made it was? An average SAT score below 1300. So that means my alma mater, with an average SAT of 1480, was SOL, to to speak. Not that we care. ;)</p>
<p>Wow, what a great example of arbitrary list generation for the purpose of selling magazines.</p>
<p>This is utter crap. Some states and schools offer subsidies to students to take AP tests, other schools actually discourage students from taking AP tests which they won't do well on. In many districts with excellent schools, the $80 fee is enough discouragement.</p>
<p>Where are schools like Thomas Jefferson (Va.) on this list? I'm not even from virginia myself, but I don't think many people can argue that TJ isn't one of the top five high schools in the country, public or private.</p>
<p>This ranking is completely ridiculous! A lot of schools pay for all of the students' AP tests. Furthermore, a lot of schools have no restrictions. In my school, we have to apply for AP and Honors classes. To even be considered, a student has to have an 88 average in the department that the class is in and needs two teacher reccomendations from the same department.</p>
<p>woooo! 359!!! even though our new principal is an athletic director, and none of our superintendants have stayed for more than a year.</p>
<p>how I wish my school paid for AP tests...</p>
<p>This list is ridiculous. The schools that are at the top of the list are playing with a stacked deck. They are all magnet schools that have the pick of the students in a large area. How can you compare those schools to regular places with just kids living near by. Also, the top school pays for its students to take AP exams.</p>
<p>We are 310, but I have noticed how we change every year. We started in the 60s in the first survey, dropped to 150s, then 350s, and now we are up again by around 45. How does one have this much variation in seven years? I thought these lists were supposed to be consistent...instead, they are quite volatile. Even USNWR is not as bad; at least it has the top colleges generally at the top of the list.</p>
<p>those rankings are S H I T and are totally irrelevant to anything</p>
<p>Hahaha! None of the high schools from my district made the list. Sure, we offer many APs, but we're probably going to withdraw them because there's only three or so people in each AP class, and from what I've heard, no one has gotten a 5 (except the valedictorian who went to Vanderbilt, but she's special). Only one person (again, the Vandee Val) in our district's 50 year history won the title of National Merit Scholar Finalist (if that's what they call it). Only one.</p>
<p>Cool! My aunt teaches at the number 7 school! Suncoast high. My cuz graduated from there, but I am going to private school. Palm Beach County, FL is supposedly 3rd best school system in nation. 3 schools in to 25. Atlantic, suncoast, and Dryfoos! Woo hoo go Florida!!!</p>
<p>Righteous_Vigilante, that is what you get when you live on the wrong side of Chicago...but then again, your family has no account to live in Winnetka.
Of course, I may be referring to the wrong person.</p>
<p>I'm the number 1 student at school number 743.</p>
<p>Kman, I live in Cibolo, Texas, which is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. We live there because they have the lowest property taxes ever. Most people just want to go to A&M or UT at Austin. They don't really consider anything else, and I know so many people have so much potential...</p>
<p>Hmm... Winnetka, you say? I'm going to have to Wiki that one.</p>
<p>I confused you with Olive_Tree.
Where are the wealthy cities in the San Antonio Area?</p>
<p>Wow, The Breakfast Club was filmed in Winnetka. Awesome.</p>