<p>Does anyone have a link to the top High Schools (both private and public) in America??! Thanks.</p>
<p>Haha. I love that list. It's even worse than US News.</p>
<p>All you need to know is McGavock High School. Just ask our principal, and he'll tell you... "We is the best school in the nation" Psh who needs a list, that sounds pretty official to me.</p>
<p>Dat list is just public...i want the one with private and public.</p>
<p>that list is also flawed, many of the stats they used are incorrect. Also, not only is college placement only one factor in determining school quality, but this list limits itself to HYP, and so if a class sends 80% of its kids to Williams and Amherst, and 95% to LACs, they won't make the list, and I think you could argue that school is probably better than any of the one's on that list.</p>
<p>Notice also that the Newsweek lists have great fluctuations over time; there was a list made in 1997, again in 2003, and in 2005. (I believe there were lists made in 1999 and 2001, but I cannot find these.) With a constant or even growing ratio of AP tests taken (not passed, only taken) a school can drop many places: Shaker Heights' place was 56, 255, 186 respectively in each survey, while its ratio stayed in the 2.6-2.8 range for each of the three surveys.
Even the one conducted by the WSJ had a skew, for they surveyed seven of the Ivy League univeristies and three selective West Coast universities (Pomona and two others I cannot remember). They left out Columbia and Stanford (lack of data), which explains the skew against (primarily) West Coast schools. If these two schools had been included there would have been multiple schools that would have been added to the list.</p>