[CSPS] The Complete List of the 1,000 Top U.S. High Schools

[feagin at tamu.edu]

The Complete List of the 1,000 Top U.S. High SchoolsHi. There is something very strange about this ranking system. 

I know number 4 on the list very well, Eastside High in Gainesville Florida, where one of my  young acquaintances goes right now. She is a very talented black student in the IB program there, which IB (Int. Baccalaureate) program is almost entirely white. 

(I moved from Gainesville last summer to here.)

The high school itself, set in communities of color, has a mostly white IB program placed in it to appear desegregated, but the school itself is mostly made up of working class Black and Latino kids who do NOT get the kind of good education they deserve, and they certainly do not receive the kind of educational program that this high ranking suggests that they get. 


I wonder how many of the ranked schools involve this heavy tracking and class/race segregated system.......


High schools in this country are severely underfunded, and a national disaster --- note the 26,000 or so not in the rankings..

Judging from our school taxes and expenditures, as a nation, we seem to 'hate' our children......

 JF



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mahajan, Arvind 
  To: csps at PHILEBUS.tamu.edu 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 4:27 PM
  Subject: [CSPS] The Complete List of the 1,000 Top U.S. High Schools


  Newsweek has just now published its ranking of top U.S. high schools. This list and the related article can be accessed at 

  http://g.msn.com/0MN2ET7/2?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7723397/site/newsweek&&CM=EmailThis&CE=1 

  CSISD is ranked # 447. 

  According to the article, there are 27,468 high schools in the U.S. Newsweek acknowledges that assessing such a large and diverse group of schools is daunting. To come up with its Best High Schools List, Newsweek used a ratio, the number of Advanced Placement (AP) and/or International Baccalaureate (IB) tests taken by all students at a school in 2004, divided by the number of graduating seniors. Using this criterion, Newsweek has ranked 1,042 schools. 

  Based upon these numbers, A&M Consolidated High School is in the top 2% of all high schools in the nation and in the top half of all ranked schools. This is a remarkable achievement for any high school, and in particular, for a Texas high school. The CSISD administration  and teachers deserve our congratulations for this feat. 

  Coincidentally, in my very recent conversations with some CSISD administrators and school board members, I had noted that it will be desirable to know how Consol stacked up, not just against other Texas schools, but nationally. Notwithstanding reasonable quibbling with the criteria used and the coarseness of the rankings, they do shed light on the issue.

  Given this achievement,  A&M Consol's benchmark should now be to crack the top one percent. How can CSPS help? 

  Arvind 

  Arvind Mahajan 
  Lamar Savings Professor of Finance 
  306N Wehner Building 
  Texas A&M University 
  College Station, TX 77843-4218 
  Phone 979-845-4876 
  Fax     979-845-3884 





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