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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you mentioned applying to private schools. Perhaps this link might be useful: http://goo.gl/GgQvR [/quote]

Wow!! DCPS doesn't even male the cut. I wish this link had listed the "high performing charters" [/quote]

Banneker and Walls were listed.[/quote]

Yes they were listed but not even enough to make a wave. [/quote]

I didn't' see a date on that spreadsheet, much less link to where the data came from?[/quote]

This information was compiled from the now defunct matriculationstats.org website. The site relied heavily on the US News & World Report rankings. Of course, no such rankings are perfect. But for the methodologies to make any sense, the site developer needed to use some such rankings and these are the most widely known and cited. 
However, the site developer also developed the MATRIC© indices. These indices are a weighted average of the schools included in each classification. For the MATRIC Top School Index©, he/she took the 25 national universities and placed them into groups of 5. The first 5 schools got 5 points, the second 5 got 4 points, etc. For the 15 schools in the Liberal Arts Colleges, he/she also placed them into groups of 5. The top group included schools like Williams and Swarthmore, which although certainly excellent schools, did not seem to merit the same number of points as Yale and Stanford. So, he/she started with 4 points for that group, 2.5 points for the 2nd group and 1 point for the third group. For the MATRIC Strong School Index©, he/she similarly allocated points amongst the larger group of schools, but points decreased between groups of 5 at a slower rate. In the event of ties in the rankings, he/she occasionally used their judgment to move schools up or down a group to make matters balance out. All points assigned are shown on the College Lists page of this now-defunct website.

No data is perfect but the spreadsheet is a good start

I'm posting a link to what the former website analyzed.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100213015303/http://www.matriculationstats.org/[/quote]

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