America's Top Public High Schools

[JohnBoucher]

Newsweek puts this list out each year.
Is your school on it and where?
Is there a relationship between FIRST and "top" high schools?

[Mark McLeod]

Hauppauge is 394
Too bad it wasn't ranked 358


P.S.
I looked at the Long Island schools for this FRC list. Some of the FRC teams are now defunct.

Rank         Team #     School
37                             Jericho (defunct)
54             2638         Great Neck South
76             2875         Cold Spring Harbor
110           496           Vandermeulen
116           2872         Wheatley
158                           Manhasset  (defunct)
167           1803         Schreiber
207           373           Locust Valley  (defunct)
267           2869         Bethpage
350           353           Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK
389           514           Miller Place
394           358           Hauppauge
468           1554         Oceanside
610           1019         Westhampton Beach  (defunct)
642           352           Carle Place
656           28             Pierson
765           263           Sachem North
950           1358         MacArthur
957           569           W. Tresper Clarke
967           263           Sachem East
997           2161         Walt Whitman
1097         1751         Comsewogue
1174         1606         Division Avenue
1178         2487         Sayville
1385         527           Plainedge
1401         311           East Islip  (defunct)

For the LI teams PoBots came closest to matching their FRC team number #350 for team 353.

[Joe Ross]

#4 is team 86
#10 is team 812

Here are some previous threads on top high school lists:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=59882
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=38007
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=20878

Team 469's school was #1 in 2003, and had a picture in Newsweek. They are 22nd this year.

[Phyrxes]

#406 is team 2068

[GaryVoshol]

There are 33 teams from Michigan in the rankings - which is as close to the list that Killer Bees will get, since they're not from a public school.

469 is ranked #22. Many other teams are also on the list, some from teams in more than one school, including 503, 226, 217, 247, 1189, 1504, and others that I can't recall the numbers right now.

[Karibou]

1189's two schools are ranked 857 & 434...same district, same curriculum, but very different ranks. At North, where I go, a lot of kids take AP classes just because. Hardly anyone takes normal Psych, they all take AP instead. There's also a lot of pressure from parents, teachers, etc. A lot of kids end up in AP classes because of pressure, and they end up doing badly in the classes because of it.

Is it like this in any other schools?

[Katie_UPS]

half of 1675 (we're a two school collaboration) is ranked 271. The other half is a technical school and I don't think it offers AP (and I know not IB) classes.


I'm wondering if the wealth of the school has anything to do with how well it ranks. Schools with more money can help pay for more tests...

[Libby K]

Team 1923 is made of two schools, West Windsor-Plainsboro North, which is ranked #678 and South, which is #510. Both schools are recognized as Blue Ribbon, and are ranked within the top 10 every year for the state.

[Bertman]

LASA, Team 418, aka Purple Haze is #35

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Bertman

LASA, Team 418, aka Purple Haze is #35

There's a bunch of schools from Texas. I also noticed that 2468, Westlake, is #72, 2583 from Westwood is #88, and 2158 from Anderson is #466. Killeen, FRC 647, is #955. That's as far as I've gotten.

I did a search for Austin and Round Rock schools and it looks like nearly every school listed has a BEST robotics team.

[ttldomination]

Team 1771 - North Gwinnett High School - Rank 212

Team 1261 - Peachtree Ridge High School - Rank 648

While It is apparent that there is somewhat of a correlation, I don't think that it is that big of a factor. 40 or so students out of 3000+ students cannot change the numbers that much.

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by JohnBoucher

Newsweek puts this list out each year.
Is your school on it and where?

I can't even get the page to load.....I guess I won't make the list.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Katie_UPS

I'm wondering if the wealth of the school has anything to do with how well it ranks. Schools with more money can help pay for more tests...

Most, if not all, of the Northern Ohio schools I recognize from that list are in well-to-do communities, some extremely so.

[Burmeister #279]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

Most, if not all, of the Northern Ohio schools I recognize from that list are in well-to-do communities, some extremely so.

Ottowa[sp?] Hills. -_-

Can somebody check our team's school for me, i can't get the page to load (my connection is so bad right now i'm only getting 70% of the page >_< )
its Toledo Technology Academy. thanks =)

ps, if i hadn't gone back to this page to tell everybody this, my view would have been the 279'th view XD

[smurfgirl]

#162 (Connecticut's top high school for the year, Farmington) is Team 178, The Enforcers.