treblemaker Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 Public schools are ranked according to a ratio devised by Jay Mathews: the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2007 divided by the number of graduating seniors. All of the schools on the list have an index of at least 1.000; they are in the top 5 percent of public schools measured this way. Texas pulled off the number two spot on the list. Below is the list of schools only in Texas in rank order. I bolded the more popular bands on here so they are easier to spot. Sorry if your school didn't make the list. Mine didn't either. Haha. 2 Talented and Gifted Dallas 4 Science/Engineering Magnet Dallas 15 Highland Park Dallas 18 North Hills Prep ** Irving 26 Communications Arts San Antonio 44 South Texas High School for Health Professions Mercedes 46 Science Academy of South Texas Mercedes 52 Westlake Austin 53 Diamond Hill-Jarvis Fort Worth 78 Westwood ** Austin 90 Paschal Fort Worth 96 Colleyville Heritage Colleyville 97 LBJ Austin 102 Bellaire ** Bellaire 125 Memorial Houston 131 White Dallas 175 YES Prep Southeast Houston 184 Grapevine Grapevine 191 Debakey High School for Health Professions Houston 194 Alamo Heights San Antonio 222 Plano West Plano 245 Westside Houston 247 Stratford Houston 285 Amon Carter-Riverside Fort Worth 297 Health Careers San Antonio 303 Lawrence D Bell ** Hurst 306 Garland ** Garland 325 Wichita Falls Wichita Falls 343 High School for Performing & Visual Arts Houston 366 Clements Sugar Land 375 New Braunfels New Braunfels 393 L. C. Anderson ** Austin 406 Rider Wichita Falls 429 Clear Lake Houston 440 Coppell Coppell 454 Winston Churchill San Antonio 458 Edinburg Edinburg 461 The Woodlands The Woodlands 471 Plano Plano 486 J.J. Pearce Richardson 492 Carroll Corpus Christi 497 International School of the Americas San Antonio 526 Woodrow Wilson Dallas 547 Hillcrest Dallas 552 Trinity ** Euless 573 Clark San Antonio 603 Lake Travis Austin 606 Valley View Pharr 623 Burbank ** San Antonio 634 Boerne Boerne 637 Turner Carrolton 642 McKinney McKinney 643 Brackenridge San Antonio 646 McCallum Austin 648 A&M Consolidated College Station 680 McNeil Austin 693 Newman Smith Carrolton 697 Richardson Richardson 722 Plano East ** Plano 736 Cedar Park Cedar Park 743 Killeen ** Killeen 748 Aldine Houston 771 McKinney North McKinney 782 Flower Mound Flower Mound 786 John Jay San Antonio 788 James E. Taylor Katy 804 Alice Alice 827 Round Rock Round Rock 862 Dripping Springs Dripping Springs 865 M.B. Lamar ** Houston 866 Creekview Carrolton 927 Reagan San Antonio 948 Edinburg North North Edinburg 950 Friendswood Friendswood 953 Elkins Missouri City 983 Allen ** Allen 985 Cinco Ranch Katy 996 James Bowie Austin 1006 Stephen F. Austin Austin 1017 Berkner Richardson 1034 Theodore Roosevelt San Antonio 1036 The Colony The Colony 1063 Ball Galveston 1081 Denison Denison 1086 W. Charles Akins Austin 1089 Sherman Sherman That made me giggle. 1094 Lake Highlands Dallas 1106 Northwest Justin 1113 San Marcos San Marcos 1120 Captain John L. Chapin El Paso 1133 Lubbock ** Lubbock 1149 David Crockett Austin 1170 Flour Bluff Corpus Christi 1179 Temple ** Temple 1215 Langham Creek Houston 1226 Tomball Tomball 1231 Lopez Brownsville 1235 Simon Rivera Brownsville 1270 Douglas Macarthur San Antonio 1271 Naaman Forest Garland 1315 Fredericksburg Fredericksburg 1323 Centennial Frisco 1328 Cypress Creek Houston 1337 Lee Tyler 1338 Porter Brownsville 1340 Calallen Corpus Christi 1372 Hirschi ** Wichita Falls 1380 Katy Katy 1403 Cy-Fair Cypress **Includes IB. Nearly all other schools use just AP tests. AP, IB and Cambridge participation are indicators of a school's efforts to challenge students and prepare for college. Here's the link to the full list if you want to check it out.. Newsweek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitewing09 Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 I've always heard John Jay in San Antonio to be ghetto lol but I guess not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treblemaker Posted July 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 It's based on the ratio of kids who TAKE the exams not necessarily PASS them to graduating seniors. Kind of weird right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitewing09 Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 Lol the only exams we take are AP Bio and Calculus, stinks lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 Did you know that Collin County is the number 2 county in America to receive an education... We have at least 3 or 4 schools in that top list in Collin County alone. =] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaverickBand15 Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 yay we are 680!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftwdrummer Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 Yay, my school's popular! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treyj Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 Yay, my school's popular! fort worth paschal? yeah i hear ya'll have great academics, but no offense your athletics are pretty sorry. I think we've beat ya'll every year like 56-0 but hey education is more important than sports, right? ;P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 haha, yah... we went 1-9 in football last year... but we're 1323 on that list, and the only school from FISD listed... and we've only been around for 5 years. =] SOOO I say that THAT is a huge accomplishment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treyj Posted July 31, 2008 Report Share Posted July 31, 2008 haha, yah... we went 1-9 in football last year... but we're 1323 on that list, and the only school from FISD listed... and we've only been around for 5 years. =] SOOO I say that THAT is a huge accomplishment. yeah! i wasn't bashing on your school or anything. I was just observing that they apparently focus a lot more on academics than athletics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borchnork Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 haha, it's okay. We bash our football team here at Centennial... heck, the football team bashes themselves... So no worries. =] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ftwdrummer Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 Paschal's actually looking kinda OK...though we ARE coming off of two "perfect" seasons...riding a 26-game streak... We won two games back-to-back freshman year...people thought we might actually be "good." We haven't won since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treyj Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 Paschal's actually looking kinda OK...though we ARE coming off of two "perfect" seasons...riding a 26-game streak... We won two games back-to-back freshman year...people thought we might actually be "good." We haven't won since. well you got moved out of our district! so maybe ya'll win some :] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whyband Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 Well guess what, it's ridiculously difficult to do well academically while in marching band. I talked to some of my Westlake friends (#52), and they say that there are very few people ranked in their top 10% in band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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