2010 National Merit Semi-Finalists (Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington: school district, colleges, vs)

[FarNorthDallas]

Ya know, usually I get this from The Dallas Morning News, but if they published a list, I didn't see it. So, I looked up a few districts and private schools to start a list of how many came from which school. Please add any you know about. Sometimes our relocaters are interested in this.

Old lists:
http://www.city-data.com/forum/dalla...finalists.html
http://www.city-data.com/forum/dalla...finalists.html really 2009 list.

Plano - total no. 90
35 - Plano Sr.
32 - Plano West
23 - Plano East

Lewisville - total no. 49
27 - Flower Mound
11 - Marcus
7 - Hebron
2 - Lewisville
2 - The Colony

Frisco - total no. 7
3 - Liberty
2 - Wakeland
1 - Frisco
1 - Centennial

Richardson - total no. 16
8 - Pearce
5 - Lake Highlands
2 - Berkner
1 - Richardson

Arlington - total no. 20
8 - Martin
8 - Lamar
3 - Arlington
1 - Bowie

Carroll Sr. High - total no. 11

Grapevine-Colleyville - total no. 9
5 - Colleyville
4 - Grapevine

HEB - total no. 3
2 - Bell
1 - Trinity

Keller - total no. 7
6 - Keller
1 - Central

Mansfield - total no. 3
1 - Summit
1 - Legacy
1 - Mansfield

Allen High school - total no. 3

McKinney - total no. 10
5 - Boyd
4 - McKinney
1 - North

St. Marks School for Boys - 25

Episcopal School of Dallas - 8

Hockaday girls school - 16

Greenhill - 9

[TriumphOfTheSprint]

Lewisville ISD actually had a total of 49 - to add to your list:

7 - Hebron
2 - The Colony

[FarNorthDallas]

Originally Posted by TriumphOfTheSprint

Lewisville ISD actually had a total of 49 - to add to your list:

7 - Hebron
2 - The Colony

Thanks - I was thinking I only had part of Lewisville.

[momof2dfw]

I don't have all of the Garland ISD but I do know these 2 (there are a total of 7 high schools in the GISD).

Garland High - 9
Naaman Forest High - 1

[kdogg817]

LOOK AT PASCHAL HIGH SCHOOL IN FORT WORTH VERY IMPRESSIVE

Fort Worth school district
Arlington Heights High School
Adam J. Bates
Dustin C. Buller
Paschal High School
McKenna R. Beard
Hannah O. Brantley
Emily G. Bruner
James H. Duke
Ely Erez
Brett M. Ferguson
Daniel J. Kruzick
Benjamin K. Lobaugh
David Vreeland
Rachel A. Wilcox
Rayce D. Yanney
Southwest High School
Ryan E. Edenfield
Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts Kerianne K. May


http://www.star-telegram.com/metro_n...y/1637162.html

[momof2dfw]

It would be interesting to see the total number of seniors for each of the schools and the number of finalists they have.

[TurtleCreek80]

Highland Park High School- 12

How many seniors are in Frisco ISD vs Plano ISD? Staggering difference in the number of semis for those two districts (that often seem like interchangeable choices for relos).

[Big G]

Originally Posted by TurtleCreek80

Highland Park High School- 12

How many seniors are in Frisco ISD vs Plano ISD? Staggering difference in the number of semis for those two districts (that often seem like interchangeable choices for relos).

Yep, people have asked me why I spent extra $$$ to do a new build in Plano ISD instead of heading north to Frisco ISD. Well, there's your answer. To be fair, Plano had over 100 NMSFs last year. Maybe Frisco can catch up in another 10 years.

That's an amazing performance by the Lewisville ISD, especially since Frisco folks seem to view the Lewisville ISD end of town as inferior.

[hsw]

Really valuable data

More important are % of semifinalists (almost all semifinalists become finalists) in graduating class and % of kids who gain admits to world's top 5 colleges (however one defines it; I view it as % of college alums who become notably wealthy in world's most competitive industries, 10-20 yrs post-grad...so Stanford CompSci, Wharton Finance, Harv Econ/ApplMath, Prince EE, Berkeley CS)

Kudos to schools like StMarks that seem to do a good job of helping smart kids enter leading colleges; am always dubious about value of HS/colleges vs value of smart/focused parents in producing high-achieving kids; I believe more of education occurs at family dinner table (and on Net and from self-teaching) from age 4-15 than in any school on planet

[Big G]

I ran some numbers on %ages of NMSFs by school class size last year. I don't feel ambitious enough to do so again this year, other than to point out that the class size of the Plano schools doesn't come close to explaining away their outsize performance on this measure. For example, Frisco ISD has senior classes of around 400, compared to 1200 for Plano. To match Plano, they should have somewhere between 8 and 12 NMSFs per school, not the 1 or 2 they do have.

I also occasionally hear the excuse that "All of Plano's top kids are Asian", as if the other schools would have similar performance, if only they had Plano's demographics. Yes, there are a lot of high-achieving Asians in Plano, but that's not the whole story.

So here are Plano's kids, broken into Asian and non-Asian, using my best guess based on the names.

Plano East: 8 non-Asian, 15 Asian
Plano Senior: 9 non-Asian, 26 Asian
Plano West: 14 non-Asian, 18 Asian

The point being, even if you disregarded every single one of Plano's Asian kids, they would STILL be outperforming neighboring districts.