Best High Schools: Top Achievement High Schools
Reader Comments
To Disappointed of AR
I really don't understand why you would comment on an "Asian invasion" and "illegal Hispanic population" until you are aware of the school's socioeconomic demographics. At the school where I teach, the API scores of our Asian population continue to rise along with the scores of the Latino population, while the scores of white students stay pretty level. I can say that socioeconomic status, not ethnicity, is the biggest predictor of success or failure in terms of the research I have seen on the API scores at my school. Ethnicity doesn't have as much to do with it and your comment smacks of racism. This article was meant to acknowledge schools that deal well with a socioeconomic disadvantage. Comments about an "Asian invasion" and illegal immigrants have no place here.
Minorities
To say that minorities bring the scores down is a real joke! What are you talking about? Havent you gone to most of the big Universities, hospitals, schools and seen who really are the people at the top? Who are the best Doctors, nurses, teachers, e.t.c?
Also, look up at the global academic performance and tell me who is at the top. We really do need the minorities in order to raise our scores here in America! Japan, Asia, China, Africa are all at the top with Education!
Immigrants and Schools
The real reason they "bring down the scores" is not that they are truly stupid. It is their lack of a good command of the English language. English is a tool which is used in ALL other subjects. Without this tool, you are handicapped, even if you have a good natural intellect. Generally, minorities like to speak their native language and that is understandable. Kids at hat age follow their peers, even if it means jumping off a cliff. My advice - diligence in learning FORMAL ENGLISH !
Immigrants bring down the score? Look for yourself....
The below link is the top performance API schools. Just look at the top 10 schools listed here, there are many schools' student body mainly Asians...so why does the Asians bring the scores down down down? check out these schools' profile yourself.
http://projects.latimes.com/schools/2008-api-scores/ranking/page/1/
And if you have time, there are ton of schools not on top ten but still considered top performance API schools that are also mainly Asians....
In CA Bay Area, the top performance schools in Fremont, Cupertino, San Ramon, and etc all have very high concentration of what you so called "Asian invasion."
Oaks Christian High School
I think you are missing a lot of great schools. Oaks has a great program and their students are getting into the top schools in the nation.
Immigrants changed Demographics
I went to Arcadia High School, CA in the 70's. Now it is a school of predominantly immigrants. Chinese and Latino at that. Why are they not on the list? Looks like the Asian invasion and the illegal Hispanic population brought the scores down, down, down.
Where is Bentonville or Rogers, Arkansas? The locals tout these schools as the best. Where are they?
Looks like the "best" in school board persons eyes, is fantazy when viewed in teh Secular eye of the test scores.
lakeshore high school st clair shores mi 48082
are there any ratings on this school?
pulic vs private schools
IN THE AREA WHERE MY SON WILL GO TO HIGH SCHOOL ,EAST SURRY HIGH SCHOOL(WHICH THE SCHOOL SCORES AND ACHEIVEMENTS HAVE GONE DOWN!) PILOT MOUNTAIN NC 1A LESS THAN 500 STUDENTS.WHAT WOULD THE ADVANTAGE OF HIM GOING TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL SUCH AS FORSYTH COUNTRY DAY ,OR GREENSBORO DAY, OR BISHOP MC GUJNESS.THE TEACHER AT THE PRIVATE SCHOOL GET THEIR EDUCATION FROM THE SAME SCHOOLS AS THE TEACHERS AT THE PUBLIC SCHOOL.UNLESS THE IS CLASS SIZE ARE SMALLER ! WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?
Wow! I feel honored!
The top schools have students who are economically disadvantaged, which also means they may not have adequate amount of educational resources compared to their white counterparts and they are still performing well and are at the top of the list? Awesome! So, Mayor Daley, what's your problem? Shouldn't you be ashamed of yourself and the unwise decisions you've made by appointing inexperienced and underqualified CEOs to the CPS school system. Or is it that you are not concerned about the economically disadvantaged students of Chicago Public Schools? And it's not the teachers who are not effective. It's bad decisions made by top management.
Wow! I feel honored!
The top schools have students who are economically disadvantaged, which also means they may not have adequate amount of educational resources compared to their white counterparts and they are still performing well and are at the top of the list? Awesome! So, Mayor Daley, what's your problem? Shouldn't you be ashamed of yourself and the unwise decisions you've made by appointing inexperienced and underqualified CEOs to the CPS school system. Or is it that you are not concerned about the economically disadvantaged students of Chicago Public Schools? And it's not the teachers who are not effective. It's bad decisions made by top management.
