Best High Schools: Gold Medal List
Posted December 4, 2008
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Um...
Where is Hunter College High School of NYC? I don't see how this list could have possibly omitted it.
No CTE schools on the list
Not a single Career and Technical Ed focused school is on this list. (Typical) We need to expand our thinking of what makes a school "The Best". Obviously, these people know nothing about Francis Tuttle Technical Institute in Oklahoma City or Puget Sound Skills Center in Seattle.
My other point: how long would a dysfunctional chair throwing out of control Special Ed kid last at a achool like Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology before he's given a one way short-bus ride to a low performing school that would not make a list like this?
No Stuyvesant High School -- WRONG!
Stuyvesant was on the first page of the listings.
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