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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | California Academy of Mathematics and Science Carson, CA | 1.9 | 85.8 |
| 27 | Boston Latin Boston, MA | 3.3 | 84.3 |
| 28 | School for the Talented and Gifted Dallas, TX | 5.3 | 84.3 |
| 29 | High School of American Studies at Lehman College Bronx, NY | 1.9 | 84.3 |
| 30 | Hume Fogg Magnet High School Nashville, TN | 2.9 | 82.8 |
| 31 | Dual Language and Asian Studies High School New York, NY | 1.6 | 82.4 |
| 32 | Staten Island Technical High School Staten Island, NY | 2.4 | 82.4 |
| 33 | Bronx High School of Science School Bronx, NY | 3.2 | 82.0 |
| 34 | Northside College Preparatory High School Chicago, IL | 3.6 | 81.9 |
| 35 | City Honors School at Fosdick Masten Park Buffalo, NY | 2.3 | 81.8 |
| 36 | Walnut Hills High School Cincinnati, OH | 3.6 | 81.6 |
| 37 | Yonkers High School Yonkers, NY | 2.9 | 80.7 |
| 38 | Baccalaureate School of Global Education Long Island City, NY | 2.5 | 79.8 |
| 39 | Lowell High San Francisco, CA | 4.5 | 79.8 |
| 40 | The Science Academy Mercedes, TX | 3.1 | 79.7 |
| 41 | Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet - Pearl High School Nashville, TN | 3.2 | 78.6 |
| 42 | Charter School of Wilmington Wilmington, DE | 4.0 | 78.1 |
| 43 | Stanton College Preparatory Jacksonville, FL | 4.8 | 77.8 |
| 44 | Walt Whitman High Bethesda, MD | 3.7 | 76.9 |
| 45 | University High Fresno, CA | 2.7 | 76.5 |
| 46 | Horace Greeley High School Chappaqua, NY | 3.5 | 75.3 |
| 47 | Dr. Ronald McNair Academy High School Jersey City, NJ | 2.3 | 74.8 |
| 48 | Queens High School of Science at York College Jamaica, NY | 1.6 | 74.2 |
| 49 | Great Neck South High School Great Neck, NY | 4.3 | 74.2 |
| 50 | Wyoming High School Wyoming, OH | 3.4 | 74.1 |
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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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