Newsweek's Top High Schools

[ginosoprano09]

US News and World Report put out the list for this year's top high schools.

( http://www.usnews.com/articles/educa...edal-list.html )

How many schools with an FRC team are in the top 100?

This has always been a thread worth discussing:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=59882
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=77601
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=20878
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=38007

[Chris is me]

The number 2 school on that list is apparently the home of 469.

I'm a little scared that I caught that immediately.

[Rick TYler]

#10 is FRC 492
#29 is VRC 417 (was VRC 10D)
#72 is FRC 948
#78 is FRC 949

[Ian Curtis]

#59 (Maine School of Science and Mathematics) doesn't have any teams, but has several FRC alumni (who participated before switching schools), and occasionally volunteers at Maine's FLL tournaments.

[Doug G]

#67 is Gunn High, FRC #192
#83 is Palo Alto High, FRC #8
#93 is Saratoga High, FRC #649
#98 is Lynbrook High, FRC #846

[Alex Cormier]

Well, spots 69 and 84 and teaming up to make a rookie team this year. Watch out!

[EricH]

#3 had FRC 1135 (not competing any more); not sure of VRC or FTC numbers. Also FLL.
#22 has FRC 687.
#32 has FRC 812.
#67 has FRC 192.
#70 has FRC 115.
#80 is in FRC 2404, IIRC.
#83 has FRC 8.

There are a couple of others that I think have teams, but I'm not sure which teams. (#1, #10, #21, #58, #73, #78, #79, #81)

I also noticed the #2 school, Chris.

[Akash Rastogi]

If all goes well, then #11 High Tech High will have an FRC team soon.

#31 Stuyvesant High in NYC is home of 694 StuyPulse

[kmitchell]

#36 is Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, CA. FRC 2489

[SteveJanesch]

#18 The Early College at Guilford is the anchor (with ~3 other high schools) for FRC 1533 Triple Strange.

[ginosoprano09]

I apologize for giving the thread a misleading title. As you may have noticed, the list is actually on the US News and World Report website. Newsweek tends to put out a list too; which is why I got confused. Thanks for the PM asking for a clarification.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by EricH

There are a couple of others that I think have teams, but I'm not sure which teams. (#1, #10, #21, #58, #73, #78, #79, #81)

#1, Thomas Jefferson HS, does NOT have a FIRST team at any level. They do have a Botball team.

[rachakate]

# 69 - Pittsford NY is a rookie team this year. 3181

[dtengineering]

I'd take these lists and rankings with a grain of salt. Okay... a dump truck of salt.

While I'm sure there are some very good schools on the list, the ranking is based on a pretty arbitrary set of criteria.

When a local "think tank", the Fraser Institute published rankings for high schools in British Columbia, it turned out that for the 18 high schools here in Vancouver there was an 80% correlation between parental education levels and the school's "score".

So as I've mentioned in previous posts, I'd consider this list to be kind of like a "Hollywoods Hottest Actors" list... intersting, fun to discuss, and a compliment to those who are on it... but highly arbitrary and hardly significant.

Jason

[keehun]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

I'd take these lists and rankings with a grain of salt. Okay... a dump truck of salt.

Highly seconded. Our high school (note: PUBLIC) puts out the most number of National Merits anywhere in MN, and beats most other stat's top schools. It's because we have way too many "other factors" that bring the rating down that we aren't on that list (I see that it's AP, but still...) While I highly congratulate schools on the list, it means nothing to me.