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U.S. News & World Report: Best High Schools in 2017
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H.Cornerstone
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Well I guess it's not too hard to do well in Arizona comparatively.. which makes sense.
TAJ
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I also went to what was considered one of the best public high schools in my state. Mine wasn't ranked and random high schools from the state in extremely poor, tiny towns are ranked.
Meanwhile some of the schools that are nationally considered top of the line, Andover, Exeter, and UChicago Lab aren't even listed on the website let alone ranked.
Wait! No fucking way what year?
Poor GRIMES
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This obsession with ranking systems for schools is so zzzzz
hipsterpants
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I thought my high school was damn good but it's only "recognized". Hmm.
thestopsign
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Same situation. It's definitely a bit weird, but really I shouldn't care any more.
smokeandmirrors
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In the 1200s. Disagree with that on the fact that literally everyone from the area that graduated from there was far more prepared for college than anyone in their classes
Also imagine if we didn't have to funnel money into charter schools so white people didn't have to deal with minorities how schools might be. Fuck charter schools.
Also imagine if we didn't have to funnel money into charter schools so white people didn't have to deal with minorities how schools might be. Fuck charter schools.
TAJ
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This is mostly a ranking of how much money your parents had but I was definitely from the wrong side of the tracks.
I know someone who went to one ranked around 300 and was the poorest student at the school by a huge margin.
I know someone who went to one ranked around 300 and was the poorest student at the school by a huge margin.
……forgetit
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Well mine did better than I expected.
Also I was in the minority in all of those. I'm an engineer with a degree.
Andrew Korenchkin
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Scottsdale with the top high school in the nation, fuck yeah!
TAJ
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Public schools in wealthier neighborhoods get a lot of money from boosters. There can also be a local tax component.
Lactose_Intolerant
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Violence Jack
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My school was voted a national school of excellence award when I went there. 18 years later and they've got a 55% graduation rate and below 30% in English proficiency. I'm depressed.
Aaronrules380
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My problem with rankings like these is that they heavily favor schools that bar low performing students from even entering. My high school was fantastic, but is unranked, and I suspect it's largely because we had a sizable special ed program, combined with a low number of african american and hispanic students (whose performance is also taken into account according to their methodology). I also think the focus on AP is problematic, since my school had less AP courses than a lot of other high schools, but the quality of said courses was much higher. For example, my High school had a higher AP pass rate than the highest ranking school in my state, but apparently that means less than just having people take the exam even if they don't do as well
Vital Tundra
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My school isn't ranked, but it seems alright stat wise.
Fancyarcher
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1931 in National Rankings with a 96% graduation rate. Not that bad. My high-school was definitely a great experience for me, so I can it's a pretty solid place to go to for education.
Oh sweet my high school did pretty good, it's one of only 2 schools in Alabama with a gold medal and in the top 500 in the nation...not bad
Homewood high school in Homewood btw, and yeah it's pretty diverse and the teachers were mostly all pretty good when i was going there....i definitely liked my time there.
Homewood high school in Homewood btw, and yeah it's pretty diverse and the teachers were mostly all pretty good when i was going there....i definitely liked my time there.
tiltnkirby
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#1290 in National Rank
#237 in California High Schools
Eh. It's alright, I guess.
#237 in California High Schools
Eh. It's alright, I guess.
Clockwork5
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1350. We can do better, Lancers!!
superdeluxe
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So how do the ratings work? There were other HS in our area that had higher grad/college readiness, but they didn't even get a ranking in the state
superdeluxe
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Damn my school 33rd in Washington, 2338th in the country. Washington must be slacking
squeakywheel
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My former high school is #1 in Hawaii. How the heck did that happen?
Perhaps Bruno Mars gave some money lol.
Perhaps Bruno Mars gave some money lol.
SchrodingerC
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Yeesh, my old HS is the 1100 range. Oh fuck off, East Lake shouldn't be ranked higher than my HS.
I DEMAND A RECOUNT.
I DEMAND A RECOUNT.
TAJ
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That's almost in the top 6% nationally.
Vigilant Walrus
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In Denmark, our Gymnasium / HF is sort of like a mix of American high school and college. We have up to 9 or 10th in basic school, and then you do 3-2 years in Gymnasium before University.
I went to several high schools, but I enjoyed my time at Det Fri (The free gymnasium). It was a sort of anarchist far-leftist institution, completely covered in grafitti art everywhere. And I do mean everywhere.
The school was structured as "alternative education". The school board consists of students, and basically everything is decided by the students. There is a head principle and a teacher staff, but they don't decide how the school is structured. The curriculum is set by the state, but the students vote and decide how they want to study and have classes structured.
The school had some of the highest grades on average in all of Denmark despite being seen as "radical".
What impressed me the most about it, it that there was a lot of people there who really was unable to function in the normal school system. People who had all sorts of problems, socially, mentally, physically. But this place gave a lot of room to people, and as a result, nobody really bullied you for being a freak or different. That was really nice about it.
It didn't have a lot of tolerance for anybody who wasn't extremely far-left thou. It was quite a echo chamber, but that was by choice. It's sort of a stronghold in Copenhagen for those who are political and very far left.
I went to several high schools, but I enjoyed my time at Det Fri (The free gymnasium). It was a sort of anarchist far-leftist institution, completely covered in grafitti art everywhere. And I do mean everywhere.
The school was structured as "alternative education". The school board consists of students, and basically everything is decided by the students. There is a head principle and a teacher staff, but they don't decide how the school is structured. The curriculum is set by the state, but the students vote and decide how they want to study and have classes structured.
The school had some of the highest grades on average in all of Denmark despite being seen as "radical".
What impressed me the most about it, it that there was a lot of people there who really was unable to function in the normal school system. People who had all sorts of problems, socially, mentally, physically. But this place gave a lot of room to people, and as a result, nobody really bullied you for being a freak or different. That was really nice about it.
It didn't have a lot of tolerance for anybody who wasn't extremely far-left thou. It was quite a echo chamber, but that was by choice. It's sort of a stronghold in Copenhagen for those who are political and very far left.
superdeluxe
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My old high school ranked in the 1200s nationally. The highest-ranking school in Utah is #238 nationally.
darkazcura
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These rankings are weird. My town is listed as 32.3 on the college readiness, but it is 'unranked' overall; however, when I check out my state's ranking, that college readiness ranking would have it sitting around ~59 in the state and ~1700 overall. There are dozens upon dozens of ranked schools with much worse college readiness scores. I have no idea why it is listed as unranked.
Anyway seems odd to barely see any Massachusetts schools up there when the state consistently ranks top in SAT scores in the country. I know there is more to schooling, but something seems off there.
Anyway seems odd to barely see any Massachusetts schools up there when the state consistently ranks top in SAT scores in the country. I know there is more to schooling, but something seems off there.
thoseAREmySHOES
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Unranked. >.>
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