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Best High Schools

Best High Schools: Gold Medal List

Posted December 4, 2008
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Based on Advanced Placement (AP) tests
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Based on International Baccalaureate (IB) tests
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Based on both Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate tests
Rank School Name and Location Quality-adjusted
Exams per
Test Taker
College
Readiness
76 Langley High McLean, VA 3.2 66.9
77 East Chapel Hill High Chapel Hill, NC 3.6 66.9
78 Bellevue High School Bellevue, WA 3.2 66.8
79 Carnegie Vanguard High School Houston, TX 2.2 66.3
80 Saratoga High Saratoga, CA 3.5 66.3
81 Highland Park High School Dallas, TX 3.5 65.7
82 Suncoast Community High School Riviera Beach, FL 2.2 65.5
83 High School for Health Professions Mercedes, TX 1.2 65.5
84 Cold Spring Harbor High School Cold Spring Harbor, NY 3.9 64.9
85 Newport Senior High School Bellevue, WA 3.2 64.6
86 Maritime & Science Technology Academy Miami, FL 2.4 64.4
87 Blind Brook High School Rye Brook, NY 3.0 64.2
88 Wheatley School Old Westbury, NY 3.5 63.6
89 Davidson Magnet School Augusta, GA 1.8 63.4
90 Woodson High Fairfax, VA 3.0 63.2
91 Pittsford-Mendon High School Pittsford, NY 3.2 63.1
92 Scarsdale Senior High School Scarsdale, NY 3.3 63.1
93 d'Evelyn Junior/Senior High School Denver, CO 2.3 63.1
94 Animo Leadership High Inglewood, CA 0.8 62.9
95 Ottawa Hills High School Toledo, OH 3.1 62.8
96 Corbett High School Corbett, OR 2.2 62.5
97 Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy Coeur d'Alene, ID 1.7 62.2
98 Chagrin Falls High School Chagrin Falls, OH 3.8 61.4
99 La Jolla Senior High La Jolla, CA 3.6 61.4
100 Belmont High Belmont, MA 3.8 61.2
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Based on Advanced Placement (AP) tests
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Based on International Baccalaureate (IB) tests
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Based on both Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate tests
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Reader Comments

Hunter

The omission of Hunter does seem like a pretty glaring problem for this list, last I heard they were the number one public Ivy feeder in the country.

If you want to test college preparedness you have to look at college placement, it would be easy enough to weight the results considering they also publish the college rankings. The reliance on APs is also very dubious at a time when a lot of high schools, especially very good high schools, are moving away from AP tests because they constrain the curriculum too tightly, especially when looking at subjects outside math and science, or because students who are going to college anyway don't need to do college work before they get there.

Also, there are no Catholic schools because private schools were not considered, which also makes this list completely unreliable. I would like to see them do the College or Grad lists and omit all private institutions and see how credible people thought the results were.

"Provincial Bigots"?

Andy said:

"A Mississippi school in some town no one has ever heard of can not match a school in the greatest city in the United States. NYC."

Do you even know what the word 'bigot' means? Or the word 'irony'? An ignorant, narrow-minded kid like you has no right to say that you're EXPECTING to get accepted into 4 Ivy League schools. Go deflate your huge ego and learn what words mean before you try to sound intelligent on some stupid thread, big boy.

To bad

Get over it the list has been made

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