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[quote=Anonymous]OP's very old original question was "based on academics," but doesn't define a measurement of that, so let's try.

How would you measure high school "academics"?

I think you would focus on:
1)  the common denominators across all students: What will every student in the school be required to study in order to graduate -- aka the minimum graduation requirements; and 
2) what degree of grade dropping gets you counseled out after remedial efforts fail. If a student can't manage your minimum standards, do they get counseled out or do you lower your academic standards?

At every school, some students will get better grades then others; some students may choose harder classes than others; some kids will do better on standardized tests than others; some will choose higher or lower ranked colleges based on a wide range of personal factors. So if you want to compare schools "academically," you can't look at the outliers or even averages because that is too variable based on individuals; I think you look at what they require academically of all students across the board, because you know your kid will have to meet that standard at a minimum and there is only upside individually from there.[/quote]

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