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Also has three others in the top half of that list (White, Woodrow Wilson and Booker T. Washington) plus non-DISD public schools within the city such as Lake Highlands and Highland Park (separate municipality). Some of the other high schools are not very good but about half of the elementary schools are recognized or exemplary.
Come on, Boston14! Your answer to everything is Boston! We all know that the Boston Public Schools aren't that great. The OP specifically asked for places where people with kids don't move out to the suburbs or send them to private schools, and that is exactly what happens in the Boston area.
you took the words right out of my mouth.
Boston public education might be in better shape then some major cities but it still has a way to go.
Add Central High School in Philly to that list. What other high school has produced Nobel laureates, Rhodes Scholars, U.S. Senators, federal judges, governors, film producers, writers, famous comedians, intellectuals, athletes, etc. etc. And we've been able to maintain some of the highest academic standards in the nation with a student body that's one quarter White, one quarter Black, one quarter Asian and one quarter Hispanic.
Masterman, Central, and CAPA are some amazing magnets, but Philly proper's neighborhood schools are still awful for the most part.
That's true of any majority-minority city with over a millione people. But we have more bright spots than most cities. And our magnets are very diverse compared to magnets in other cities.
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