Wow....I finally have a state wide ranking for schools (Houston: buy, school rankings)

[usc619]

Databases - Children at Risk / Houston Chronicle school rankings | chron.com - Houston Chronicle (http://www.chron.com/databases/School-rankings.html - broken link)

Now I get to see how Houston schools measure up against schools from Austin, DFW, and San Antonio

[crbcrbrgv]

SchoolDigger.com - School Rankings, Reviews and More - Public and Private Elementary, Middle, High Schools is also very good.

[mikehtown]

You've got to look at the methodology of the rankings. For example, I think this Children at Risk study weights nearly 20% of the score on the % of economically disadvantaged students and TAKS scores account for only 10%. Further, SAT and ACT scores are only 10%. This weighting highlights how well the magnet programs and charter schools are doing with disadvantaged kids.

While weightings like this may provide some great insight into how school leadership is doing, it isn't a something I would use in deciding where I should buy a home.

[crbcrbrgv]

The simple fact of the matter is if you and your spouse are good parents, your children will succeed at any school.

[iris2010]

Thanks for any information

[TexasVines]

Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv

The simple fact of the matter is if you and your spouse are good parents, your children will succeed at any school.

completely and totally false and really could not be further from the truth

from the quoted post you are obviously one of the same one that scolds others for saying "hasta la vista" when some 17yo with 2 felonies and a gun gets gunned down......because as you would tell us "they came from good parents"

so which is it.....can good parentS have a kid that ends up in "the wrong crowd" and gets in trouble (before of course turning it all around with the wRap career).....or is it guaranteed that good parents will only have good kids and honor students at ANY school as you stated

right here from our own forums

//www.city-data.com/forum/dalla...ills-18-a.html

not only did these two fine upstanding, loving, stable parents manage to lose one son to "the wrong crowd" they managed to lose two sons to "the wrong crowd" and even better they still seem in denial about the fact that their sonS WERE THE WRONG CROWD

so which one is it.....are cloevontratras and quizzizoni parents good parents that sent their kids to a good school and somehow you were proven wrong twice IN THE SAME FAMILY....and their kids did not turn out fine even though the parents were good parents

or is it very very very important for people that care about their kids to ignore the blind and the ignorant and choose their schools and areas to raise their kids very carefully.....so as to avoid the types of good parents that lose not one, but two kids to gang violence

[bands321]

The simple fact of the matter is if you and your spouse are good parents, your children will succeed at any school.

This is so not true. You can only teach your children so much and hope that they take what you say to heart....we live in a very big sometimes bad world...and they make their own choices/decisions no matter what they've been taught.

[sbhubbell]

Originally Posted by crbcrbrgv

The simple fact of the matter is if you and your spouse are good parents, your children will succeed at any school.

Maybe but the level of success can be radically different from school to school. And you can't deny that colleges take the HS into account when considering every student's application.

[potato head8]

Originally Posted by sbhubbell

Maybe but the level of success can be radically different from school to school. And you can't deny that colleges take the HS into account when considering every student's application.

This may not be as true for high school as much as college. I don't think many admissions committees tend to distinguish one public high school from the next, unless perhaps the school is a magnet school or a known private feeder school.

[EasilyAmused]

Originally Posted by sbhubbell

Maybe but the level of success can be radically different from school to school. And you can't deny that colleges take the HS into account when considering every student's application.

Colleges do not take individual HS's into account during the application process. Maybe UT, where they are pulling only Top 10.But it still doesn't matter, you still have to be Top 10 at Memorial or Kashmere...one doesn't outweigh the other with that rule. Two kids with the exact same stats: The school isn't going to chose the kid from Memorial over the kid from Kashmere just because of the high school. There will be a personal determining factor that makes one more desirable than the other.

A college in Michigan isn't going to research a HS in Texas to determine a kid's worthiness. A family member of mine was the dean of admissions of a highly ranked, private University for 25 years. The High School the kid goes to has nothing to do with admission. Maybe with the education they recieved, but not the admission into a college. That they have to do one their own..unless mommy writes the essay too.

Scores, essay, grades, AP classes,class rank,interview,teacher recommendations (key), extracirricular and unfortunately sometimes race. That's it.