25 High Schools - Rank Best to Worst

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Isn't George Mason one of the best in the nation? It used to be one of the top ten schools in the nation but in the most recent USWN ranking it is unranked. What gives?

Best according to the lame USNWR criteria.

It was ranked highly by USNWR two years ago, but was unranked last year.

How is that possible?

The USNWR model is a bit like NCLB. If a school has a cohort of students, such as low-income or minority students, that underperform on SOLs compared to some state average or the like, it gets kicked out by USNWR and isn't ranked. It doesn't matter how well the majority of the students do.

Any model like this depends on the methodology and the data. If the methodology is bad, a very good school can go unranked. If the data is bad, a good school can end up overrated. And so on.

Thanks. I was wondering how a supposedly top school (per USNWR) could just disappear off the rankings like that.

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Just behind TJ, George Mason HS in Falls Church City is the next top ranked public school in the area.

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Anonymous wrote:Just behind TJ, George Mason HS in Falls Church City is the next top ranked public school in the area.

US News now has TJ, Langley, Madison, McLean and Woodson as the five top ranked schools in the state of Virginia.

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Who else besides Langley and Woodson had recent student suicides?

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straight from the horses mouth

“It’s really important to me to keep up a hard schedule, so this class is perfect because it may not be college level curriculum but you get the advantages,” rising junior Stephanie S. said. With college looming near, it’s a viable option for those looking to add more depth to their applications.

Langley Guidance Counselors are strongly emphasizing the benefits of taking this new course. As it’s an AP, students receive a whole point boost to their GPA. Along with this, students enrolled in AP Physics aren’t required to do the Science Fair, however Honors students are.

See more at - http://www.saxonscope.com/news-2/2014/03/05/ap-phy...new-option-for-rising-juniors/

It is all about gaming the gpa, we know that.

stop the grade inflation, set some limits, give teenagers back their life.

Let the children take as many APs as they want but stop the grade inflation to stop the stress for the majority of children.

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I agree the article suggests students should take courses just to boost their GPAs, which is sad but not exactly without precedent. Even so, it is not nice to call a student journalist a horse.