NCS top local-area ranking in new Fifty Best Private Day Schools in The United States

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Anonymous wrote:The Post article says that most private schools in the area refuse to provide the data used in the statistical analysis underlying these rankings. We can only speculate as to why schools other than St. Anslem’s and WIS didn’t provide data, but I have a hunch that it was NOT because the data would look too good in comparison to public high schools. That’s the trouble with rankings based on objective criteria: the private institutions own the data and they aren’t giving it up unless they know that it will make them look good.

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Oh, okay, your "+1000" post convinces me that a ranking based on the number of AP exams divided by students, designed to measure whether schools encourage "average students" to take standardized tests, is being avoided by private schools because of their inferiority. Thanks, I was on the fence until your post convinced me!!!!

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It is such a stupid ranking. Number of tests divided by number of students taking it, must equal good school? There are some excellent public high schools in this area. And many excellent independent schools. None of these rankings shed much light, but any of os who have lived here, sent our children to school here, and basically haven't lived under a rock know which are the top schools (ndependent or private). Now, can we all just move on, please?? I'll be the first.