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I like the comment "these look pretty accurate" - as if anyone has attended, had their kids attend, or known parents with kids attending a majority of schools in NJ in order to be able to tell what the results should be!
The actual translation of this comment is "these look pretty close to the majority of similar lists put out by similar publications in the past". Or perhaps "this looks like a pretty comprehensive listing of wealthy towns in NJ".
If you went to a top college in the northeast, odds are that you know people who went to a good chunk of these schools or you know people who moved to a good chunk of these towns when they got married and had kids so that their kids could go to these schools.
Well yes surprising! It was never ranked highly before then made the jump from 120 something to 8? What changed so much in two years? Besides GreatSchools.org ranks them as an 8 out of 10, not bad at all, but top 10 in the state? Something strange about this.
But AnesthesiaMD - leave it to a shameless person like I am to press the sort feature on their overall score (2nd column) so we could rank 'em! At least I didn't type a number in front of each school.
IMHO the rankings look pretty accurate. Anyone disagree?
I excerpted only a portion from the top.
Bergen County Academies
Union Cty. Magnet H.S.
Marine Academy of Tech. and Envir. Sciences
Communications H.S.
Princeton H.S.
Millburn H.S.
W. Windsor - Plainsboro H.S. - South
Bergen County Technical
Tenafly H.S.
W. Windsor - Plainsboro H.S. - North
Montgomery H.S.
Glen Rock H.S.
Ridgewood H.S.
Academy For Information Technology
North Star Academy C.S. of Newark
McNair Academic H.S.
Academy For Performing Arts
Westfield H.S.
Haddonfield Memorial H.S.
Summit H.S.
Ridge H.S.
Chatham H.S.
Livingston H.S.
Mountain Lakes H.S.
West Morris Mendham H.S.
Madison H.S.
Mahwah H.S.
Rumson-Fair Haven Regional H.S.
Well the left out the top four public academies in Monmouth Co, two of which are national ranked in the top 20….so seems a bit "off" to me.
Well yes surprising! It was never ranked highly before then made the jump from 120 something to 8? What changed so much in two years? Besides GreatSchools.org ranks them as an 8 out of 10, not bad at all, but top 10 in the state? Something strange about this.
Maybe because they added some new criteria this year?
Quote:
this year’s rankings include two new factors. The SAT performance score for each school is based on the percentage of students scoring 1,550 or better on the annual tests, a benchmark the DOE says is “associated with
a high likelihood of college success.” Also, the Student Outcomes score includes “post- secondary enrollment,” a calculation of the percentage of students enrolled in a two- or four-year college at least 16 months after high school graduation.
Last edited by AnesthesiaMD; 08-20-2014 at 09:09 PM..
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