America's Top Public High Schools

[ginosoprano09]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

There's a bunch of schools from Texas.

2585 from Bellaire is #135, 1898 from Westside is #183, 624 from Cinco Ranch is #458, 2587 from Lamar is #838, 2880 from Ball is #976

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Burmeister #279

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

Your school is not on the list.

Only two New Hampshire schools made the list.

Hollis Brookline- 1073 (ranks 1228)
Southegan- 138 (ranks 1467)

[Joe Ross]

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...

#56 is a relatively new charter school from Hawthorne, CA, a poorer area. The two closest public schools are in the bottom 20% of the state rankings.

[AdamHeard]

Team 294 is #299 with Mira Costa, and #738 with Redondo Union.

687 is #351

[sanddrag]

589's school is #346

[Ivan Helmrich]

Lincoln College Prep Academy, home of the Tigerbytes team #1775, is 127 on the list.

One indication of wealth is the "Subs Lunch" number. Higher numbers reflect a higher percentage of students who get subsidized meals at school. Schools numbered 9 and 10 have subsidized lunch numbers of 2% and 100% respectively. The whole range is represented.

[PaW]

Issaquah High School made the cut at number 1106.

My other son attends Interlake High School (Saints Robotics FRC 1899 & Rick Tyler's favorite adopted VEX team ) did well on the Newsweek survey at number 18.

[Mike8519]

Team 303 is ranked #1075 - Bridgewater-Raritan High School

[Wayne C.]

North Brunswick (25) isn't on the list. I guess we are just ghetto

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by 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.

I remember back in 2005 not only was their school number one but the robotics teams was the main picture for the article showing off their Championship trophy and robot.

[iwin2000]

Team 2168 is #1119.

[JB987]

Interesting to note that the rating is based on number of tests taken but doesn't reflect performance on the tests. Some schools force all or most of their kids to take AP level courses and subsidize the costs of the tests as well and pass rates are not impressive...I would prefer to see the average scores considered as part of the criterion for ratings.

[David Brinza]

Almost half of Team 980's students attend South Pasadena HS (ranked #787).

There are a bunch of SoCal FRC teams whose schools are on the list, several have already been mentioned.

[Carol]

Has anyone compared the percentage of schools on the list that have FIRST teams with the percentage of schools not on the list? Or rather, it may be easier to compare to the percentage of schools nationwide that have FIRST teams.

[Jetweb]

Originally Posted by JB987

Interesting to note that the rating is based on number of tests taken but doesn't reflect performance on the tests. Some schools force all or most of their kids to take AP level courses and subsidize the costs of the tests as well and pass rates are not impressive...I would prefer to see the average scores considered as part of the criterion for ratings.

the majority of 179's students come from Suncoast, ranked #7 this year and was 3rd last year. every one of them would tell you that these rating mean nothing for the exact reasons mentioned by JB, they were actually angry that the district was making it seem like an accomplishment.