What High Schools Have Nationwide Recognition

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<p>Just out of curiousity, I know like two or three, but I don't know too much about high schools so I'm sure y'all can do better.</p>

<p>EDIT: I learned Andover and Exeter from this forum and I'd like to think my school does (Stuyvesant) but I'm not so sure as it's a public school.</p>

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<p>well, private high schools like andover, exeter & lawrenceville def have nationwide recognition. for public, probably stuyvesant</p>

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<p>the ny science schools like stuy, bronx science, etc, probbaly thomas jefferson in va, harvard westlake, etc</p>

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<p>In California:</p>

<p>Public Schools
Palo Alto High School (Northern California)
Mission San Jose (Northern California)
Lynbrook High School (Northern California)
Monta Vista High School (Northern California)
Gunn High School (Northern California)
James Logan High School (Northern California)
Long Beach Poly (Southern California)</p>

<p>Private Schools
Webb Institute (Southern California)
Harvard-Westlake (Southern California)
Bellarmine College Preparatory (Northern California)
Harker Academy (Northern California)</p>

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<p>Well, I'd have to put Hunter up there with Stuyvesant, for NYC public-yet-test schools. Hunter's more known for its amazing liberal arts though (Re: Scholastic Writing Awards, they got >25% of New York State's Gold Keys and 4/5 of the American Voices Awards Nominations) and more liberal student body, while Stuy's more famous for math.</p>

<p>So - New York City:</p>

<p>Public:
Hunter
Stuyvesant
Bronx Science</p>

<p>Private:
Girls: Chapin, Brearley, Spence
Nightingale-Bamford, Sacred Heart
(not sure if Hewitt and Marymount are co-ed or not)
Boys: St. Bernard's, St. David's, Collegiate, Buckley
Co-ed: Trinity, Dalton</p>

<p>(I went to Chapin, then to Hunter, now off to Exeter.)</p>

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<p>De La Salle for their football =).</p>

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<p>yea ive never heard of any of those schools in cali cept for harvard-westlake</p>

<p>i would say the ones with the best rep all around are
horace mann
choate
stuyvesant
bronxscience
andover
exeter
thomas jefferson for s&t
harvard-westlake</p>

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<p>and Brooklyn Tech.</p>

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<p>Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Northern VA has national recognition. It's a magnet school in Northern VA, and there are about 2000 8th graders who apply for the 400 slots available in the freshman class. I believe they have one of the highest numbers of National Merit Scholar Semi-finalists in the US. Very well-known and highly challenging magnet school. :-)</p>

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<p>Harker School in NorCal is excellent...the average SAT score was a 1410 and they were named the top schools in terms of AP Calculus and Physics, I believe. But I'm biased, because that's my school. And they're the only school in America to have a sophomore named a National AP scholar, who took 9 AP exams and scored a 5 on all of them.
And Lowell High in San Francisco is up there too.</p>

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<p>The Webb Schools in SoCal is an excellent institution as well; many famous alumni in government and in the media; they have students from across the US, Asia, Africa, and Europe. Bellarmine in NorCal has an excellent Speech & Debate program (Top 5 in nation) and 2nd best Robotics team, not to mention several sports teams ranked in the Top 50 nationally.</p>

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<p>Diamond Bar High School (public)...#1 in the world for Calc AB 2004 for large schools.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2005-01-25-ap-list_x.htm#calab%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2005-01-25-ap-list_x.htm#calab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>w00t w00t go DBHS we rock...too bad by th looks of it we are gonna lose that ranking ><</p>

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<p>yeah...DBHS basically owned everyone. cool name too. and we have a mascot thats not a guy...but an animal. an ANIMAL!</p>

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<p>w00t. monta vista pride!</p>

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<p>lol. Harker and Lynbrook pride!! ^^v</p>

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<p>Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD is pretty well known, too, I think. It's a magnet math/science school like TJ in Virginia, and it has a similar application process.</p>

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<p>for Illinois:
Northside College Prep
Whitney Young Magnet
New Trier
Illinois Math & Science Academy
Walter Payton College Prep (my favorite)</p>

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<p><------Horace Mann</p>

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<p>i just googled chicago college preps and found this data published by the chicago sun-times</p>

<p>"COLLEGE PREP COMPETITION </p>

<p>The number of qualified applicants* per freshman seat for 2005 at each of the Chicago Public Schools' elite college preps. </p>

<p>JONES: 37.3
PAYTON: 34.8
NORTHSIDE: 24.9
YOUNG: 22.6
BROOKS: 12.2
KING: 9.0
LINDBLOM: 7.3
LANE TECH: 6.8</p>

<p>*Each applicant may apply to up to four schools
Source: Chicago Board of Education"</p>

<p><a href="http://www.suntimes.com/output/education/cst-nws-prep17.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.suntimes.com/output/education/cst-nws-prep17.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>