[NewJeffCT]

Newsweek has come out with their annual list of the top 500 high schools in the country. 15 schools from Connecticut made the list, led by Weston HS at #47. Pretty good overall in that we have about 1% of the country’s population, but 3% of the top high schools.

However, some odd omissions and inclusions on the list. East Granby, Haddam-Killingworth and South Windsor made the cut. But, New Canaan, Greenwich, Darien and Wilton were NOT on the list from Fairfield County, and neither were Trumbull, either high school in Fairfield, Masuk in Monroe, Joel Barlow for Easton/Redding, while elsewhere Guilford, Avon, Glastonbury, East Lyme, EO Smith in Storrs and a few other notables were also missing.

Entire list at the link – several magnet schools from NJ were in the top 10.

http://www.newsweek.com/high-schools...h-schools-2015

[SeaDoo342]

Only 15?? Population of each state doesn't matter…. you have to look at what percentage of CT high schools were examined and compare that to the entire amount of high schools…. I really don't think 15 of 500 is something to be proud of… I think we could do much better...

[JayCT]

Every year this ranking and the US News and World Report ranking comes out and we find them to be questionable at best. I do not see where you can get the list sorted by state and I really do not feel like going through all 500 schools listed to pick them out. Certainly some of the schools NewJeff listed are considered the tops in our state so for them to be left off wile others included is kind of bad. Jay

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by SeaDoo342

Only 15?? Population of each state doesn't matter…. you have to look at what percentage of CT high schools were examined and compare that to the entire amount of high schools…. I really don't think 15 of 500 is something to be proud of… I think we could do much better...

One way to look at it is that Connecticut has about 1% of the country's population so having 3% of the top high schools is really not bad. Jay

[mlassoff]

Another way to think about it is that we only have 193 high schools in the state so almost 8% of our high schools were in the top 500.

Ohio (don't now why I chose that state) has 881 high schools and 19 in the top 500. Yield is just under 4%.

[SeaDoo342]

Originally Posted by JayCT

One way to look at it is that Connecticut has about 1% of the country's population so having 3% of the top high schools is really not bad. Jay

Huh?

That way is not accurate at all…… you would have to compare population to population…. or school to school… statistically the 1 and 3% numbers is not a proper way to look at it.

Again…. you have to compare how many schools we have and the percentage of those schools that made the list compared to other states…. not saying CT did bad here but I think 15 in the top 500 is nothing to brag about.

Originally Posted by mlassoff

Another way to think about it is that we only have 193 high schools in the state so almost 8% of our high schools were in the top 500.

Ohio (don't now why I chose that state) has 881 high schools and 19 in the top 500. Yield is just under 4%.

Ok, looking at it that way is accurate. And actually is decent. I'm curious to see how the states rank as a percentage….and where we fall on that list...

[NewJeffCT]

Originally Posted by mlassoff

Another way to think about it is that we only have 193 high schools in the state so almost 8% of our high schools were in the top 500.

Ohio (don't now why I chose that state) has 881 high schools and 19 in the top 500. Yield is just under 4%.

just curious - how did you find out Ohio had 881 high schools?

[FutureTown]

This list is pretty stupid, imo. I wouldn't even bother. I remember a school in Massachusetts was on this list some years back and their graduating class's best went to Brown and no other Ivy League while mine in Newtown had every Ivy covered except for Princeton (Which took two kids the year before mine).

That, is a better indication if you ask me.

[NewJeffCT]

OK - I think I figured it out.
TX has 1,870 high schools and 30 schools made the top 500, or 1.6%
CA has 2,202 high schools and 57 schools on the list, or 2.6%
Mass has 352 high schools and 19 on the list, or 5.3% (Strangely, like CT, they had some biggies excluded like Lexington HS and Acton-Boxborough. Lexington typically makes top 10/20 national lists.)
NY has 56 out of 1260, or 4.4%
NJ had 56 out of 416, an impressive 13.46%

[NewJeffCT]

Originally Posted by FutureTown

This list is pretty stupid, imo. I wouldn't even bother. I remember a school in Massachusetts was on this list some years back and their graduating class's best went to Brown and no other Ivy League while mine in Newtown had every Ivy covered except for Princeton (Which took two kids the year before mine).

That, is a better indication if you ask me.

Staples in Westport had 25 kids go to Ivy League schools this past year. Only Princeton did not have more than one Ivy League bound kid from Staples. Another 30 kids went to elite schools like MIT, Duke, Northwestern, Carnegie-Mellon, Johns Hopkins, Cal Tech and a few others. (Nobody to Stanford, though.)

They publish who goes where for Staples. (Plus, who knows about specialized majors? If one of the kids going to Syracuse goes for broadcasting, it's like the Princeton, Yale or Harvard of broadcasting)