America's Top Public High Schools

[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

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by PaW

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.

I'll say they are my favorite adopted team. Some of the FRC 1899 students joined our club, built a VEX robot, and took it to VRC Worlds where they ended being an alliance captain. Nice kids and good robot builders to boot.

[katd30]

One of 2642's students goes to JH Rose High, is #688. Odd though, since Rose is known for having the lowest AP scores in our area and the highest dropout rate. So maybe Newsweek should not release this list until mid-July when AP scores do come out so it reflects the school's performance. However, I do realize that College Board and who ever distributes the IB and Cambridge tests may not release average scores per school to the general public.

Also, it only compares how many tests were taken, not how many students took AP tests. There is one girl at my high school who took a test every day of the 2 weeks of testing, and took 2 on several days. The list also does not reflect the number of dropouts versus graduating seniors. Or the fact that many sophomores, juniors, and even freshman take AP exams as well (I took 2 as a sophomore, as did half the sophomore and junior classes).

Newsweek also doesn't look at other types of classes. Many students at my freshman/sophomore year high school take Concurrent Enrollment classes at the local community college. And my junior/senior year high school has an articulation agreement with 2 state universities where we receive X numbers of hours for a class without taking an AP exam. Many of the students that take advantage of this agreement enter college as a 2nd semester sophomore or as a junior.

So... Sorry for the long post. My mind just kind of kept spiraling and I blabber a lot. But here is a good question, I think: What do the schools on the list receive? Maybe not from Newsweek, but in terms of funding and publicity?

[Katie_UPS]

Originally Posted by katd30

So... Sorry for the long post. My mind just kind of kept spiraling and I blabber a lot. But here is a good question, I think: What do the schools on the list receive? Maybe not from Newsweek, but in terms of funding and publicity?

Bragging rights, really. "Send your kid here! Newsweek ranked us the top in the state!"
Which in turn, helps the school. The more you can "brag", the more kids apply. As more kids apply, the competitveness goes up. Ideally, the smarter kids will get in, and the collaboritive intelligence goes up.

Although, don't get me wrong, letting kids who aren't as 'smart', but want to learn, into the system does just as much, if not more, good than just letting 'smart' kids in.

[ehochstein]

My school unfortunatly is not ranked in there, but in our state we are ranked in the top ten for test scores >.>

[Abra Cadabra IV]

#231 is team 2429, and #346 is team 589.

[Rick TYler]

Looking at the list, I'd say at least half of the top schools in Washington have FRC teams. Redmond High is #684 and makes up more than half the Exothermic Robotics Club, which competes in VRC and FTC, but not FRC.

[deusex]

Maggie Walker is on the public elite list and I'm the build manager for the team there.

[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)

[AdamHeard]

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

687 is #351

[sanddrag]

589's school is #346

[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.