@ucbalumnus They actually use the students averages in our school district to break out class rank. My daughter has a 95.07 average through 1 semester of senior year. The tippy top of her class of 800+ students is very good but doesn’t have outrageous numbers (6 NMFs) like some schools I have read about. What seems better than the average good suburban high school is where the students are going to college and the number of high achieving URM students. Students in her class have committed to Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, U Penn, Cornell, Duke, Vandy, Washington U, a few elite LACs, at least 15 Georgia Tech commits, and what looked like 100 University of Georgia commits from the College Day on May 1st (students wear the college they plan to attend so that can always change). The school demographics (55% minorities with about 35% URMs) is very diverse and the tippy top URMs at the school have better grades and standardized test scores than my daughter. The high school is the type where the top students thrive, the students at the bottom have lots of resources and the students in the middle (25%-75%) seem slightly neglected (my own personal assessment). But the teachers do care (About 1/3 of the teachers are alumni of the high school).