NMR: America's Best High Schools

Kerre Li (xix) · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:54 pm

to be announced Wrote:

I'm sure Syosset High School is somewhere up there. I know Jericho and Cold Spring Harbor are like in the top 40 or something and those are the two neighboring school districts. Our high school was essentially the same as theirs.

CSH was no. 35! I went to Huntington. Too bad we weren't rich...

gauchebag · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:59 pm

Mrs. Neuro Wrote:

I went to Huntington. Too bad we weren 't AS rich...

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:19 pm

Promethium Wrote:

I was curious if anyone on here actually attended any of the top 1,000 schools.

#888

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:45 pm

#190 BROADNECK HIGH SCHOOL. Annapolis, Maryland [ Public ]

GO BRUINS!

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:47 pm

Shmoo at Richard Montgomery, but what about elephantstone? B-CC? Murrland Obners represent on the high school tip, yo.

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

Promethium Wrote:

I was curious if anyone on here actually attended any of the top 1,000 schools.

didn't see reform school listed there.

tentoze · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:56 pm

My twins went to #28. It has slipped some since they were going there- it was #7.

greezy · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:05 pm

#521 with a bullet! several other obners are alums/employees.

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

druucifer Wrote:

#521 with a bullet! several other obners are alums/employees.

i am so coming to steal their pot.
rich kids have the best dope.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:11 pm

#303 High Point Central, High Point, NC

I was in the IB program.

harry · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:31 pm

As some of you may remember, I am a school administrator. My last district had/has 5 of its 6 high schools in the top 500.

There is an absolute correlation to these rankings, and socio-economic status of the families of the kids and the amount of per-student funding. As our systems stand, money in the home and money in the district accounting office equals "student achievement." In some respects studies like these say "those who are rich are rich." And NCLB's impact has actually only exacerbated this.

gauchebag · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:33 pm

harry Wrote:

As some of you may remember, I am a school administrator. My last district had/has 5 of its 6 high schools in the top 500.

There is an absolute correlation to these rankings, and socio-economic status of the families of the kids and the amount of per-student funding. As our systems stand, money in the home and money in the district accounting office equals "student achievement." In some respects studies like these say "those who are rich are rich." And NCLB's impact has actually only exacerbated this.

That's what I've said a couple of times on this thread. They're all definitely schools in rich white suburbs. Places where people realize that high taxes are good because that means more money goes towards your kid's education.

fickerson · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:38 pm

#537 - George Washington High School, and the first school to appear on the list from Iowa, I might add.

Busty Rhodes · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:07 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Promethium Wrote:

I was curious if anyone on here actually attended any of the top 1,000 schools.

#888

Uh, well...RIGHT ON!

shmoo · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:42 pm

Fu Wrote:

Shmoo at Richard Montgomery, but what about elephantstone? B-CC? Murrland Obners represent on the high school tip, yo.

I feel like e-stone went to Wootten (#51) or Rockville (#426).

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:09 pm

I have no idea why I thought B-CC. It just sorta jumped outta my brain.

Gordo · **Posted:** Mon May 01, 2006 12:01 am

I actually attended 2 schools on the list, 801 and 809. Though they're ranked close, I thought 801 was much harder and more cutthroat than 809.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

My public high school went out of business. There was a hostile takeover by the neighboring town, Unfiortunately, they're a lot dumber than we were, and we're down to #834.

red · **Joined:** Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:34 am **Posts:** 5009

no way. as i was explaining to friends at lunch last week, my hs guidance counselor didn't even encourage us to go to college. i'm glad that my mom wanted me to attend lutheran school so badly. it's done wonders.

e-stone · **Posted:** Mon May 01, 2006 12:58 am

shmoo Wrote:

Fu Wrote:

Shmoo at Richard Montgomery, but what about elephantstone? B-CC? Murrland Obners represent on the high school tip, yo.

I feel like e-stone went to Wootten (#51) or Rockville (#426).

rockville!

damn, montgomery county really is up there huh?

e-stone · **Posted:** Mon May 01, 2006 1:01 am

how 'bout billy g? i'm thinking severna park (#255)?

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

720.

See, this is wierd, 30 is Lincoln Park H.S., ahead of other more touted schools in IL, but according to the stats we got, Lincoln Park isn't even in the top ten in IL. 1 and 2 were CPS schools, Walter Payton College Prep, and Northside College Prep, 4 was Lane Tech (another CPS school), and the rest were northshore burbs...

I know the stats were based on Standardized Tests Scores and average GPA, so the criteria are different...

FT · **Posted:** Tue May 02, 2006 1:49 pm

WOO-HOO! My shitty high school is #929!!! At least the one my kids will go to is only now being built. It doesn't open until the fall.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

not many OR high schools on there - pathetic state of affairs up here.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Tue May 02, 2006 2:47 pm

elephantstone Wrote:

how 'bout billy g? i'm thinking severna park (#255)?

FUCK SEVERNA PARK.

GO BROADNECK.

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