Best High School? (Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Gallup: transfer, construction, middle school)

[karmathecat]

Isn't it a shame when the BEST is less than 70%?

[bradly]

Originally Posted by karmathecat

Isn't it a shame when the BEST is less than 70%?

Yea.. Look at West Mesa, they have the largest percentage of Dropouts in the state. Over 150 a year I think.. Their enrollment figures skip 200 each grade.

[fatwhale]

Originally Posted by bradly

I know I wouldnt mind paying 13k for my son, To me it means not much becuase an education in today's society is manditory! I mean even if I didnt have the money. I would make sure he did. Well its also a family school. Sports to me is the second thing. I have always loved sports, I was in so many sports sometimes I couldnt even keep up.. but I had fun.. It made me wanna learn and get good grades. And for some people thats the only reason they go to school Now a days.

NOTE:
Academy has a rep for rich, rich kids.. Everytime I took my cousin to school he made me take him in my Range Rover other wise kids would laugh.

that's ridiculous. Academy may have a rep for those rich kids, but as an alum, i know that a ton of my classmates were not rich at all. that's why academy boasts their financial aid program. that cousin of yours may have had a self esteem problem or something, cuz no academy kid would ever laugh like that.
obviously, i would be biased in putting in my view on the best high abq high school, but i'll just say that i know tons of students at public high schools were way smarter than my classmates, and got into better colleges. so you really don't need to spend tons of dough on some fancy private school to get into a top 20 college.

[bradly]

Actually it does have one, I have several family members that go there.. Not just one.
But my step-brother went there as well.. Plus I know several staff members there.

And that depends when you graduated? Times change.

[Bobby777]

Originally Posted by mrgoodwx

Searching around on internet, it seems difficult to find up-to-date statistics. However, in the most recent numbers I could find, in July 2007, the ABQ Journal stated 52.6% of APS students graduated within 4 years. Their ranking (public schools only) at that time (for the 2005 year)

La Cueva 69.5%
Eldorado 65.6%
Sandia 64.4%
Cibola 57.4%
Manzano 55.7%
Del Norte 49.5%
Valley 48.8%
Highland 46.4%
Rio Grande 43.1%
Albuquerque 42.6%
West Mesa 40.2%

If anyone knows of a more recent publication, it would be good to see that.

And I guess everyone has seen the recent article:
NM ranks 48th for high school graduation rate - Silver City Sun-News

Whoa! I didn't even realize that high school graduation rates were so low nationwide. I thought we'd average around 80%. It's pretty hard to NOT graduate HS. It's so easy that I don't see why so many kids are just deciding not to go through it all.

[bradly]

I know when I was in school we only needed 19 credits... Now the same high school has 23 and they are still dropping out?!? The state average for credits is 26, the highest 30.

[abqsunport]

Originally Posted by karmathecat

Isn't it a shame when the BEST is less than 70%?

This data is old. I talked to an old friend of mine who is a counciler at La Cueva and he said that their graduation rate is over 70. He also said that of all graduates at La Cueva High School, 90% continue on to attend higher education of some sort. This doesn't all mean that they leave with college education, but 90% go one to get some more education.

[br7or13]

Wow, my school's really fallen off. Sad.

[rybert]

Anybody have Moriarty graduation rates?

[mrgoodwx]

Here is an interesting link. Check out page 25 for Moriarty.

Notice the graduation rates at this site are a lot better than the published stats from 2007. I haven't looked at all the nitty-gritty details, but I believe the 2007 stats are based on the percentage of students who entered high school in the fall of 2003 and graduated in the spring of 2007. Perhaps the more favorable stats are based on the percentage of students who entered their senior year in the fall of 2007 and actually graduated in 2008.

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