The US News public high school rankings came out at midnight Wednesday. Meant to compete with Newsweek’s less-than-useful annual list (which ranks schools solely on AP/IB participation), the survey is based pretty much entirely on the same thing, plus state tests, with some attention to economic and racial parity.
12 NYC schools made the US News gold list: Newcomers High School in Long Island City (#6), the High School of American Studies at Lehman College (#19), Stuy (#31), Townsend Harris High School in Flushing (#33), Staten Island Tech (#34), the Baccalaureate School for Global Education in Long Island City (#35), the High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies (#52), Bronx Science (#58), Brooklyn Tech (#63), NEST+M (#64), the High School for Law and Public Service (#75), and Queens High School for the Sciences at York College (#81). You can judge for yourself how arbitrary (or not) this list is, but since no NYC schools made the Newsweek top 100, I’m inclined to think of the US News rankings as an improvement.
Also newsworthy: Stuy and Bronx Science are good schools with similarities and differences.
On the silver list: Baruch, the Collegiate Institute for Math & Science in the Bronx, Benjamin Banneker, Bronx Engineering and Technology Academy, Eleanor Roosevelt, LaGuardia, Frederick Douglass, the High School for Health Professions and Human Services, the High School of Economics and Finance, the High School of Telecommunication Arts & Technology, Hostos-Lincoln Academy of Science in the Bronx, the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, Manhattan International High School, Queens Gateway to Health Sciences Secondary School, Millenium, Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy (MS/HS 141), the Academy of American Studies in Queens, the Marble Hill School for International Studies in the Bronx, the Michael J. Petrides School in Staten Island, and the Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction. There’s also a bronze list, but you get the idea.
