Best High Schools: Gold Medal List
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- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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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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