Best High Schools: Gold Medal List

nonsense

Why do they have a handicap factor for the minority and poverty levels, to get these scores.

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.

"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

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.

Best High Schools

It looks like no Caatholic HS were considered. Why?