Top 10 high schools

[sbhubbell]

Appears that The Woodlands schools and Conroe ISD in general is not included in Metro Houston. According to the map I'm looking at, The Woodlands HS is definitely further out from dowtown Houston than any Katy school. Klien ISD schools are on the list though.

You can argue that the rankings aren't fair because they are influenced by income, but that doesn't mean they aren't true. It's not about private tutoring either. Higher income schools usually have higher levels of parent involvment in general. Kids raised in higher socio-economic environments have a distinct advantage from birth, stemming from their parents' vocabularies and the abundance of books in the home. Fair? No...just facts.

[citizen_jane]

Here is the link explaining how these rankings were calculated:
http://www.childrenatrisk.org//cmsFiles/Files/Methodology_2009_FINAL.pdf (broken link)

In specific regard to income:

Economically Disadvantaged: the percentage of students coded as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch or eligible for other public assistance.
The effects of poverty are pervasive and negatively impact how a child is able to learn and perform academically. Research shows that poverty is a predictor of whether or not a student will graduate from high school in 4 years and will achieve post-secondary academic success. Thus, CHILDREN AT RISK assumes a high school that is working with a high percentage of economically disadvantaged students must put forth more effort to retain and support these students. For this reason, these schools are rewarded.

Lastly, the high schools in The Woodlands (Conroe ISD - The Woodlands HS and College Park) were not included because they do not have freshmen classes. There is a table in the link above showing which high schools were not included and why.

[Hayato]

the original post was from 2007, so the list is for 2006?

[citizen_jane]

Yes, you are right the list in the original post is old. If you follow the links to the Children At Risk web site you will find the most current list that was published on 4/12/09. Here are the top 10...

1 CARNEGIE VANGUARD HS HOUSTON ISD
2 DEBAKEY H S FOR HEALTH PROF HOUSTON ISD
3 PERFOR & VIS ARTS H S HOUSTON ISD
4 MEMORIAL H S SPRING BRANCH ISD
5 CLEMENTS H S FORT BEND ISD
6 CINCO RANCH H S KATY ISD
7 YES PREP - SOUTHEAST CAMPUS YES PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
8 CHALLENGE EARLY COLLEGE H S HOUSTON ISD
9 KERR H S ALIEF ISD
10 STEPHEN F AUSTIN H S FORT BEND ISD

[DanceCandi]

i think Carnegie Bellaire YES Prep and Debakey all deserve to b here!!! Bellaire may not have the best academics out of these 4. but it ranks in the top 0.5% of the country and they have sports extracurriculars clubs and everything u could want in a high school!

[N. Buck]

Klein High didn't make it? This list must be wrong! Crap . . . where are those smiley faces?