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[quote=Anonymous]They have different lists.

May 2015: General List - likely reflects the richest schools and/or those that cherry pick out the top kids like TJ. 
Aug 2015: The Beating the Odds list of which schools do the best job after trying to weight for SES some.

They answer different questions - the general one would be "where are the kids flying highest academically" (even if your kid specifically is not a high-flyer). The latter list seems to try to focus on "who's doing the best job of educating kids that are on average tougher to educate" (so would seem to be more relevant for a wider swath of people since it's actually more focused on the impact the school's having vs the collection of kids the school has put together via selection process or boundary lines).

"The Newsweek High School Rankings evaluates schools on a broad range of criteria in order to identify schools that excel at preparing students for college and overcome the obstacles posed by socioeconomic inequality. The question, “What are the best schools?” has two different answers depending on whether or not student poverty is taken into account. In an effort to address the effect of socioeconomic disadvantage on education, Newsweek is publishing two lists: “America’s Top High Schools 2015,” which ranks schools solely based on performance (our “absolute” list) and “Beating the Odds 2015,” which ranks schools based on performance while also controlling for student poverty rates (our ‘relative’ list)."[/quote]

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