[Tom Line]

I find the ranking system serverely flawed when some of those schools are conglomerations of a number of schools: the schools banded together to create another school where they only allow students with extremely GPA's to attend and only in very limited numbers.

That's not to say it isn't a GREAT idea on the school district's part to help their kids out in that manner. It's merely a reflection that the 'measurement' system in this case is garbage when they compare a normal public school to an academy of the 'best of the best' that were hand picked.

Big grain of salt, indeed.

The schools on that list do have a right to be proud though - they're obviously doing something very right!

P.S. - Our robotics team comes from an academy - a conglomeration of schools who only send their better students. So obviously I'm not against it - just the measurement system that compares apples to oranges.