<p>haha my school use to be in the top 100 and its dropped to 742 :( damn increase in students =P</p>
<h1>57.</h1>
<p>it's sorta stupid ranking...</p>
<p>This is a very stupid ranking and I'll prove it to you:
<a href="http://www.njmonthly.com/issues/Nov04/tophs.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.njmonthly.com/issues/Nov04/tophs.html</a>
Now let's chooose two schools for New Jersey on Both lists
Mcnair on #15 and Glen Ridge at #91. Now if you look at the number of tests for #15 you will see nearly twice the amount of student population taking aps, however the amount receiving higher than a 3 is 40%, hardly comparable to the high 70's and 80's on the list. This is a stupid list, instead of calling it America's "best" high schools, they should call it America's best AP Programs PER STUDENT. I mean come on Stuy or Hunter aren't in the top 100!? LOL Taht tells you something is wrong.
Personally if you look at the New Jersey Monthly magazine you'll be amazed at how they rank. Truly is amazing</p>
<p>mine is 503, it hurts when you have a lot of kids. Its funny though, because our average SAT scores are higher than any other school from Georgia on that list thats ahead of us(with the exception of walton). It is a stupid system because kids are not encouraged to take a lot of AP's at my school. Im holding up my end, 14 tests by graduation... </p>
<p>But you all are right, its dumb to do it this way and it doesnt measure the quality of the education for each student.</p>
<p>The list doesn't make sense and doesn't recognize all schools. I know my school has an average of about 7 AP classes per person, probably more for graduating seniors since we have are required to take AP. Is there a minimum number of students you need to qualify for that list because I know the school I go to only had 52 graduating seniors last year.</p>
<p>My school is mad poor, madly overcrowded, and we STILL have the best scores in North America (IB). That's the good stuff. I also like how so many of the top schools in the US are IB. Hats off to globalization!</p>
<p>this ranking ranks public schools, even public magnet schools
its totally biased and stupid</p>
<p>how about a ranking system of schools where students are most satisfied with their school? that would probably be much more accurate then this stupid ranking</p>
<p>what does subsidized lunch mean?</p>
<p>I have alot of kids too (3300) and we still have a fair ranking (79)</p>
<h1>132 not bad not bad</h1>
<p>My school dropped from 4 to 61 and the reaction has been mixed. My beef with the list, besides the fact that their method really doesn't say anything about school quality, is that the number one school on the list is actually inside another school and is run by that school's principal. Also, according to this newspaper article about it (<a href="http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1115717070150420.xml%5B/url%5D">http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1115717070150420.xml</a>)
the school requires all people who apply for it to have at least a B average and be in the top 20th percentile on a standardized test, which kinda conflicts with the stipulation on the list that the school can only admit up to fifty percent of its students with grade or testing requirements. I guess they either overlooked that minor detail (that should disqualify the school from the list) or there is something going on here I don't know about.</p>
<p>I didn't see my school's rank at all in the top 1000, but the official state monthly magazine ranks our school at #4 in the state. Strange.</p>
<p>my school is #17!!!!! woohooo!</p>
<p>the whole list is totally based on # of AP classes and students....thats it...not a great list and it mean s absolutely nothing</p>
<p>my school isn't even ranked</p>
<p>yeah this list is flawed b/c it only ranks public high schools. there are hundreds of private high schools that would outperform the ones on this list. also, this list is based heavily on amounts of ap's etc. There are many schools like mine which provide no ap courses and dont track students. We are allowed to take the tests but do not take ap courses per se. They are ap caliper but not specifically called ap. But congrats to the schools that did make the list. Just wanted to point out a few things.</p>
<p>I agree with redo6. Basing APs on public schools is not a good way to decide which one is "best". I also noticed something interesting while i was reading the article. A lot of the schools are ( for lack of a better word) "specialty" schools. A lot of them have emphasis on one particular area: arts, science, engineering. I have heard that a school with a specialty in one area is usually very weak in other areas...however, that may not be true, It's just what I have heard. I'm wondering if they took that into account while ranking.</p>
<p>Magnet schools are interesting. Its like they make one magnet school in a county and put all of the funding they have into that school, while letting the other ones completely fall apart. Thats what I know is common in florida(no state income tax, not a lot of school funding).</p>
<p>I agree that the ranking method is stupid but I'm definately proud of my school's #867 ranking. HAHA, our avg. SAT is barely over 1050!</p>