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The list measures the average (mean) score on standardized tests taken by the students at the school.[/quote]

Yes, so? Is it wrong to say it measures the "school's overall performance"? I think most reasonable person would know when we talk about HS performance, we are talking about student scores (average, not a few particular students).[/quote]

I haven't followed it too closely but measuring college and career readiness is looking at more factors than it used to.

For previous rankings it only looked at state assessment scores.  And some other rankings just the number of AP tests taken divided by number of graduating students for that year.  So there were a lot of issues were those types of methods.

For the newer measures they look at more factors such as courses taken, I think some might look at grades, tests taken and performance, etc.

Here are the factors that the niche.com rankings took into account:
https://www.niche.com/about/methodology/college-prep-public-high-schools/

So while standardized tests still play a factor it looks at other things as well.

However I agree with previous comments that the rankings are more of a reflection of the population of the schools rather than the performance of the schools itself.[/quote]

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