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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Snorlax][quote=Anonymous]The schools we are considering are: Sangster, Keene Mill, Springfield Estates, and West Springfield. [/quote]

I think the most important thing is which high school your home address map to.  For example, if you live in Springfield Estate, you probably end up in Lewis (Formerly Robert E Lee), college readiness index is 33.3%.  West Springfield HS college readiness index is 55%. 
Be aware that not everyone in the same elementary goes to the same middle/high school.  It's highly address specific. 
Hope this will narrow your list down a little. 
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The references to US News as a reliable source are very misleading and must be carefully cross-checked before spouting off numbers as facts. I'm not here to argue that Lewis is 'better' than WSHS as obviously Lewis serves more kids in poverty while WSHS serves a tiny fraction by comparison. Anyway, the "College Readiness Index" is an arbitrary value made up by US News where they weigh some exam number calculations without careful thought or analysis.
For example, Lewis is primarily an IB school with a couple AP class offerings. 90% of seniors at Lewis who took an IB exam scored a 4+ (equivalent to a 3 in AP). Contrast this to WSHS where 82% of seniors who took an AP exam scored a 3+.

One might argue AP is harder than IB and therefore the AP exam pass rate at WSHS is lower for that reason. IB isn't easy, but sure, whatever. My real point is that college-bound seniors taking IB are succeeding convincingly even somewhere like Lewis.

Lewis' "College Readiness index" is getting strongly penalized because [I]only[/I] 30% of seniors at Lewis took an AP exam. So the fact that Lewis offers a few APs but a greater percentage of seniors take IB instead is actually hurting it's US News score. This happens at all IB schools which are knocked down for lacking AP enrollment despite the IB seniors' success.[/quote]

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