Newsweek high school rankings
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Anonymous
| TJ is number one, but six out of the top ten are in New Jersey. Does New Jersey have a reputation for having good schools? |
Anonymous
| Yes. It is a very wealthy state and very highly educated. Rt 1 corridor is filled with engineers and chemists. |
Anonymous
It's got a lot of rich people in the NYC burbs who send their kids to highly segregated publics, unlike the very rich people in NYC proper who send their kids to private school, and the rich people on the CT side and Westchester who send their kids to boarding school. |
Anonymous
| Yes, great schools even in the less affluent areas. Property taxes are much higher up there. |
Anonymous
| Pockets of good schools usually where the money is. |
Anonymous
| Half of New Jersey's high schools listed and virtually none of the high schools in the DC area? Can't be right. |
Anonymous
It's a defunct magazine. Ranking high schools. Nationally. No, it's not right. It's nearly as bad as greatschools in terms of being not in any way, shape, or form credible. Any time thinking about it is wasted; I wish I had the 30 seconds back I spent typing this message. |
Anonymous
Because your kid's HS is not listed? |
Anonymous
| It is probably the math tests again, since Virginia SOLs don't test beyond Algebra II. |
Anonymous
| Basically North Jersey to NYC is what NoVA is to DC. NYC is even richer than DC so a lot of that trickles to the suburbs of Jersey. |
Anonymous
| All the W schools are listed. |
Anonymous
"W schools"? |
Anonymous
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Methodology used appears to be reasonable:
http://www.newsweek.com/methodology-newsweeks-top-high-school-rankings-2015-363698 |
Anonymous
"Winston Churchill, Walter Johnson, Walt Whitman" |
Anonymous
True, they are, but not very highly. |