U.S. News Unveils 2022 Best High Schools Rankings

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Anonymous wrote:All the detractors can't keep good school down.

Love & perseverance triumphs over hate!

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Anonymous wrote:All the detractors can't keep good school down.

Love & perseverance triumphs over hate!

Well said.

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Congratulations for what??? It's a magazine ranking on a piece of paper. It's not like they have won some competitions.

Agreed. The made-up criteria by US News is quite arbitrary and self-fulfilling. For example, US News came up with "college readiness index" which simply looks at the percentage of kids who took and passed an AP exam. So of course magnet schools would be high up there. A typical school that serves a very poor and disadvantaged population obviously won't have the luxury of having so many kids able and ready to take AP exams.

If US News instead had a metric that tracked improvement of low-performing kids at a school over some years, then one could actually conclude that the school was truly doing a good job.

Local school systems don't seem to have this metric, so no surprise that US News doesn't either. However, the metrics they use are a useful proxy if you want to identify schools with a lot of high-achieving kids. The rankings can, of course, be gamed to some extent. The most obvious example in NoVa is Marshall HS, which has eliminated Honors English 11 and 12 and defaults kids into AP English classes to boost its "college readiness" score.

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Anonymous wrote:2022 Best High Schools National Rankings – Top 10

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (VA)
2. Academic Magnet High School (SC)
3. Signature School (IN)
4. School for Advanced Studies (FL)
5. Payton College Preparatory High School (IL)
6. The Davidson Academy of Nevada
7. Central Magnet School (TN)
8. The School for the Talented and Gifted (TX)
9. Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (GA)
10. Julia R. Masterman Secondary School (PA)


2022 Best Magnet High Schools – Top 5

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
2. Academic Magnet High School
3. Central Magnet School (TN)
4. The School for the Talented and Gifted
5. Julia R. Masterman Secondary School

https://www.usnews.com/info/blogs/press-room/articles/2022-04-26/u-s-news-unveils-2022-best-high-schools-rankings

Congratulations to TJ!

Congratulations for what??? It's a magazine ranking on a piece of paper. It's not like they have won some competitions.

Congrats on being named the best high school in the country! You, the students, are doing great despite all the hate.

+1

[Anonymous]

Too bad they will fall in the next few years.

[Anonymous]

Wait for 4 more years. All the LWNJ and racist mob will cherish the moment when TJ will not be in the list.

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Anonymous wrote:2022 Best High Schools National Rankings – Top 10

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (VA)
2. Academic Magnet High School (SC)
3. Signature School (IN)
4. School for Advanced Studies (FL)
5. Payton College Preparatory High School (IL)
6. The Davidson Academy of Nevada
7. Central Magnet School (TN)
8. The School for the Talented and Gifted (TX)
9. Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (GA)
10. Julia R. Masterman Secondary School (PA)


2022 Best Magnet High Schools – Top 5

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
2. Academic Magnet High School
3. Central Magnet School (TN)
4. The School for the Talented and Gifted
5. Julia R. Masterman Secondary School

https://www.usnews.com/info/blogs/press-room/articles/2022-04-26/u-s-news-unveils-2022-best-high-schools-rankings

Congratulations to TJ!

Congratulations for what??? It's a magazine ranking on a piece of paper. It's not like they have won some competitions.

Congrats on being named the best high school in the country! You, the students, are doing great despite all the hate.

The latest rankings are based on a mix of 2018-19 and 2019-20 school data for graduating students. To the extent the rancor relates to the change in the TJ admissions process, that has no impact on the 2022 US News ratings.

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Anonymous wrote:2022 Best High Schools National Rankings – Top 10

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (VA)
2. Academic Magnet High School (SC)
3. Signature School (IN)
4. School for Advanced Studies (FL)
5. Payton College Preparatory High School (IL)
6. The Davidson Academy of Nevada
7. Central Magnet School (TN)
8. The School for the Talented and Gifted (TX)
9. Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (GA)
10. Julia R. Masterman Secondary School (PA)


2022 Best Magnet High Schools – Top 5

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
2. Academic Magnet High School
3. Central Magnet School (TN)
4. The School for the Talented and Gifted
5. Julia R. Masterman Secondary School

https://www.usnews.com/info/blogs/press-room/articles/2022-04-26/u-s-news-unveils-2022-best-high-schools-rankings

Congratulations to TJ!

Congratulations for what??? It's a magazine ranking on a piece of paper. It's not like they have won some competitions.

Congrats on being named the best high school in the country! You, the students, are doing great despite all the hate.

The latest rankings are based on a mix of 2018-19 and 2019-20 school data for graduating students. To the extent the rancor relates to the change in the TJ admissions process, that has no impact on the 2022 US News ratings.

I think the former Education Secretary Qarni had wrote to USNW in 2020 and complained that TJ should not be ranked number 1 high school in the country so yes, rancor related to the change in the TJ admissions process certainly had an affect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How most northern VA high schools ranked in VA listing:

(1) TJ
(2) Langley
(3) Mclean
(4) Open High School (Richmond, VA)
(5) Marshall
(6) Oakton
(7) Woodson
(8) Madison

Where are the Arlington HSs?!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2022 Best High Schools National Rankings – Top 10

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (VA)
2. Academic Magnet High School (SC)
3. Signature School (IN)
4. School for Advanced Studies (FL)
5. Payton College Preparatory High School (IL)
6. The Davidson Academy of Nevada
7. Central Magnet School (TN)
8. The School for the Talented and Gifted (TX)
9. Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (GA)
10. Julia R. Masterman Secondary School (PA)


2022 Best Magnet High Schools – Top 5

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
2. Academic Magnet High School
3. Central Magnet School (TN)
4. The School for the Talented and Gifted
5. Julia R. Masterman Secondary School

https://www.usnews.com/info/blogs/press-room/articles/2022-04-26/u-s-news-unveils-2022-best-high-schools-rankings

Congratulations to TJ!

Congratulations for what??? It's a magazine ranking on a piece of paper. It's not like they have won some competitions.

Congrats on being named the best high school in the country! You, the students, are doing great despite all the hate.

The latest rankings are based on a mix of 2018-19 and 2019-20 school data for graduating students. To the extent the rancor relates to the change in the TJ admissions process, that has no impact on the 2022 US News ratings.

I think the former Education Secretary Qarni had wrote to USNW in 2020 and complained that TJ should not be ranked number 1 high school in the country so yes, rancor related to the change in the TJ admissions process certainly had an affect.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:2022 Best High Schools National Rankings – Top 10

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (VA)
2. Academic Magnet High School (SC)
3. Signature School (IN)
4. School for Advanced Studies (FL)
5. Payton College Preparatory High School (IL)
6. The Davidson Academy of Nevada
7. Central Magnet School (TN)
8. The School for the Talented and Gifted (TX)
9. Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (GA)
10. Julia R. Masterman Secondary School (PA)


2022 Best Magnet High Schools – Top 5

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
2. Academic Magnet High School
3. Central Magnet School (TN)
4. The School for the Talented and Gifted
5. Julia R. Masterman Secondary School

https://www.usnews.com/info/blogs/press-room/articles/2022-04-26/u-s-news-unveils-2022-best-high-schools-rankings

Congratulations to TJ!

Congratulations for what??? It's a magazine ranking on a piece of paper. It's not like they have won some competitions.

Congrats on being named the best high school in the country! You, the students, are doing great despite all the hate.

The latest rankings are based on a mix of 2018-19 and 2019-20 school data for graduating students. To the extent the rancor relates to the change in the TJ admissions process, that has no impact on the 2022 US News ratings.

I think the former Education Secretary Qarni had wrote to USNW in 2020 and complained that TJ should not be ranked number 1 high school in the country so yes, rancor related to the change in the TJ admissions process certainly had an affect.

+1

The other three in the top four magnates all have grades, test scores, and teacher recommendations as part of their admissions. After TJ goes through a few more years of the new admissions, it will fall out of the rankings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How most northern VA high schools ranked in VA listing:

(1) TJ
(2) Langley
(3) Mclean
(4) Open High School (Richmond, VA)
(5) Marshall
(6) Oakton
(7) Woodson
(8) Madison

Where are the Arlington HSs?!

Yorktown is #14 and W-L #22 in the state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Congratulations for what??? It's a magazine ranking on a piece of paper. It's not like they have won some competitions.

Agreed. The made-up criteria by US News is quite arbitrary and self-fulfilling. For example, US News came up with "college readiness index" which simply looks at the percentage of kids who took and passed an AP exam. So of course magnet schools would be high up there. A typical school that serves a very poor and disadvantaged population obviously won't have the luxury of having so many kids able and ready to take AP exams.

If US News instead had a metric that tracked improvement of low-performing kids at a school over some years, then one could actually conclude that the school was truly doing a good job.

Local school systems don't seem to have this metric, so no surprise that US News doesn't either. However, the metrics they use are a useful proxy if you want to identify schools with a lot of high-achieving kids. The rankings can, of course, be gamed to some extent. The most obvious example in NoVa is Marshall HS, which has eliminated Honors English 11 and 12 and defaults kids into AP English classes to boost its "college readiness" score.

That's what irks me the most. These types of rankings essentially point out which schools have high-achieving kids which in the end is a proxy for having the most wealthy parents. They are hardly meaningful measures of the school itself, meaning the teacher quality, administrator-teacher synergy, and support staff. A school could have terrible teachers and administrators but have a glowing ranking because the kids have so much parental support from an educated background.

But so many uninformed people genuinely believe the school staff is terrible at their job at a low-ranked school and I take that personally although I know I shouldn't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2022 Best High Schools National Rankings – Top 10

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (VA)
2. Academic Magnet High School (SC)
3. Signature School (IN)
4. School for Advanced Studies (FL)
5. Payton College Preparatory High School (IL)
6. The Davidson Academy of Nevada
7. Central Magnet School (TN)
8. The School for the Talented and Gifted (TX)
9. Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology (GA)
10. Julia R. Masterman Secondary School (PA)


2022 Best Magnet High Schools – Top 5

1. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
2. Academic Magnet High School
3. Central Magnet School (TN)
4. The School for the Talented and Gifted
5. Julia R. Masterman Secondary School

https://www.usnews.com/info/blogs/press-room/articles/2022-04-26/u-s-news-unveils-2022-best-high-schools-rankings

Congratulations to TJ!

Congratulations for what??? It's a magazine ranking on a piece of paper. It's not like they have won some competitions.

Congrats on being named the best high school in the country! You, the students, are doing great despite all the hate.

The latest rankings are based on a mix of 2018-19 and 2019-20 school data for graduating students. To the extent the rancor relates to the change in the TJ admissions process, that has no impact on the 2022 US News ratings.

I think the former Education Secretary Qarni had wrote to USNW in 2020 and complained that TJ should not be ranked number 1 high school in the country so yes, rancor related to the change in the TJ admissions process certainly had an affect.

Very bizarre behavior on the part of State official whose job is to promote excellence in education for Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Congratulations for what??? It's a magazine ranking on a piece of paper. It's not like they have won some competitions.

Agreed. The made-up criteria by US News is quite arbitrary and self-fulfilling. For example, US News came up with "college readiness index" which simply looks at the percentage of kids who took and passed an AP exam. So of course magnet schools would be high up there. A typical school that serves a very poor and disadvantaged population obviously won't have the luxury of having so many kids able and ready to take AP exams.

If US News instead had a metric that tracked improvement of low-performing kids at a school over some years, then one could actually conclude that the school was truly doing a good job.

Local school systems don't seem to have this metric, so no surprise that US News doesn't either. However, the metrics they use are a useful proxy if you want to identify schools with a lot of high-achieving kids. The rankings can, of course, be gamed to some extent. The most obvious example in NoVa is Marshall HS, which has eliminated Honors English 11 and 12 and defaults kids into AP English classes to boost its "college readiness" score.

That's what irks me the most. These types of rankings essentially point out which schools have high-achieving kids which in the end is a proxy for having the most wealthy parents. They are hardly meaningful measures of the school itself, meaning the teacher quality, administrator-teacher synergy, and support staff. A school could have terrible teachers and administrators but have a glowing ranking because the kids have so much parental support from an educated background.

But so many uninformed people genuinely believe the school staff is terrible at their job at a low-ranked school and I take that personally although I know I shouldn't.

You shouldn’t take it personally, because most people do appreciate there are teachers and administrators working very hard at many low-ranked schools.

But neither should you exclude one of the most important aspects of a school - its students - from a description of what makes up a school.