It ranks Newton North a mere 11th in MA and 167th (!!!) in the country so it must be bullshit.
Best PUBLIC high school? Who gives a shit.
I'm slightly skeptical that they have Whitman ranked in the top 100. It may have improved since I was looking at schools, but it feels out of place to me.
I looked at the local (MA) district rankings and found them a little weird. They weight academics 50% of the total score, which put a few A+ academic districts with some other major dings (satisfaction, diversity, facilities) over districts with A's across the board. Also, around here there are some big differences in the reputations of the high schools and the individual districts - people moving for high school isn't rare, and this doesn't have an obvious way to reflect that.
Since they're calculating numerical scores and using them for a single ranking, I want to see that score so I can determine which differences in ranking are "almost tied" and which ones are major (in their system) gaps.
(Hard for me to argue with the high school or college rankings, though. Go TJ!)
Nowhere in the valley here made the best places to raise a family list. GOOD. Keep away, hipster scum.
Missoula: A+
Their method is presumptively valid.
The rankings seem at odds with most other rankings I've seen. Maybe that's a good thing. In any case the high school I went to is in the top 100, and the local high school where I live is not even in the top 25 in MA. I'm waiting to hear the outraged emails and blog posts from local people when they find out.
The fact that this ranking is affiliated with Zillow says it all: real estate prices are largely determined by school quality (except in a few places where "everyone" goes to private school).
Hawaii Pacific University swung a B, which is pretty sweet, except somehow didn't get a grade for weather, which, WTF?
Looks like many schools are in some top-100 list. That's how you do it.
The fact that the school where I went is ranked higher than the school where my brother went is all that's really important, deep down.
My high school is 226th in the nation, apparently.
Our local high school is 766th in Texas. That's good, right? It got a B+.
And 4912th in the country! How many high schools are there?
Their best city to raise a kid is Plano? These fuckers have been huffing scotchguard.
The comments re child's school covered the range, I think they might be helpful to someone.
I'm reading the comments from Heebie U students. Under "diversity" they've mostly interpreted it as religious diversity - "Oh yeah, there's everything from Christian to atheist to Muslim to anything else you can think of!" and next most as political diversity. Barely anyone is interpreting it racially.
At Heebie U we have mostly hispanic and black students. The white students mostly come from lower income areas but act like they are not.
Heh.
Are you supposed to be writing those?
My high school is 213th in the US, but I think the site low-balled the activities/extra curriculars.
My old high school is 12,507th in the country, with 42% of students proficient in math, 47% in English. Oh, and a 76% graduation rate, which I suspect is generous.
The white students mostly come from lower income areas but act like they are not.
Makes it sound like Brideshead Revisited.
22: Not sure if it's true in your state but a lot of places have raised the legal drop-out age and that lets some people get swept along who might not have earlier.