User:Jh12/Draft3
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Newsweek Public Elites
Keeping track of Newsweek "Public Elites," schools considered too good to be on Newsweek's "Best High Schools in America" aka "Top Public High Schools in America" list
For the past few years, Newsweek has ranked public high schools in the US by the Challenge Index, the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school divided by the number of graduating seniors. The top 5 percent of public schools measured in this way are included in a "Top Public High Schools in America" list. In 2008, 1428 schools were listed out of 23,800 public secondary schools.
Newsweek excludes public schools with exceptionally high test scores from the list, and names them "Public elites." Typically, the cutoff is schools with average SAT scores above 1300 (Mathematics+Critical reading/Verbal) or average ACT scores above 27. In 2008, the reasoning was their "sky-high SAT and ACT scores indicate the schools have few or no average students" and according to the designer of the Challenge Index (Jay Mathews) are "too good for my list."
The following table shows the Newsweek "Public Elites" from 2006-2009. There were 22 in 2006, 21 in 2007, 17 in 2008, and 16 in 2009.
Public Elites 2008 Public Elites 2009
Archived Newsweek pages (scroll to the bottom once the page has loaded):
Public Elites 2006
Public Elites 2007[1][2][3][4][5]