Best High Schools: Gold Medal List
- yellow
- Based on Advanced Placement (AP) tests
- blue
- Based on International Baccalaureate (IB) tests
- green
- Based on both Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate tests
| Rank | School Name and Location | Quality-adjusted Exams per Test Taker |
College Readiness |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Edgemont Junior-Senior High School Scarsdale, NY | 3.8 | 73.9 |
| 52 | Yes College Preparatory School Houston, TX | 1.4 | 73.2 |
| 53 | Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter High Los Angeles, CA | 1.0 | 73.2 |
| 54 | Thomas S. Wootton High Rockville, MD | 3.9 | 73.0 |
| 55 | McLean High McLean, VA | 2.9 | 72.5 |
| 56 | Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions Houston, TX | 2.3 | 72.2 |
| 57 | Winston Churchill High Potomac, MD | 3.7 | 72.0 |
| 58 | Westshore Junior/Senior High School Melbourne, FL | 2.5 | 71.8 |
| 59 | Northland Preparatory Academy Flagstaff, AZ | 2.5 | 71.6 |
| 60 | Mission San Jose High Fremont, CA | 3.2 | 71.5 |
| 61 | Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts West Palm Beach, FL | 2.9 | 71.5 |
| 62 | Jericho Senior High School Jericho, NY | 4.2 | 70.9 |
| 63 | Payton College Preparatory High School Chicago, IL | 2.3 | 70.8 |
| 64 | Piedmont High Piedmont, CA | 2.9 | 70.1 |
| 65 | South Texas Academy of Medical Tech San Benito, TX | 0.7 | 70.0 |
| 66 | Masterman Julia R Secondary School Philadelphia, PA | 2.5 | 69.9 |
| 67 | Brooklyn Technical High School Brooklyn, NY | 2.0 | 69.8 |
| 68 | Signature School Inc. Evansville, IN | 3.6 | 69.5 |
| 69 | Peak To Peak Charter School Lafayette, CO | 2.9 | 69.4 |
| 70 | Hawthorne Math and Science Academy High Hawthorne, CA | 0.8 | 69.3 |
| 71 | Townsend Harris High School Flushing, NY | 2.1 | 69.0 |
| 72 | Paxon School/Advanced Studies Jacksonville, FL | 2.5 | 68.9 |
| 73 | Monta Vista High Cupertino, CA | 3.6 | 68.8 |
| 74 | Henry M. Gunn High Palo Alto, CA | 4.9 | 68.2 |
| 75 | Pittsford Sutherland High School Pittsford, NY | 3.9 | 68.0 |
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Reader Comments
Double Standard
everyone was perfectly aware that it's double standard since they choose not to consider private & public schools. If I was them, I would redo it correctly since it's not accurate! I'm sure they are not interested in this since they did not make any plans to redo it
QUESTION THESE #'S
I question these numbers as I am personally familiar with some schools on this list.
Moreover, anything data pertaining to "high schools" is questionable as schools are in shambles thanks to 1/2 century of service by Edward Kennedy, cheating, and the teachers unions not doing their jobs in a responsible fashion.
This is factual.
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.
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