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There are thousands of schools that this list was comprised of. Didn't see how many but this list would be the top 10% based on 1,000 schools. So my guess is you take all the schools that they ranked in account, this is probably the top 1% so that doesn't mean that schools that didn't make the list are not very good.
I agree but i noticed schools from cupertino, fremont and palo alto (bay area) in there and was very surprised to find them there. Are you telling me that bay area schools are really that good compared to RTP ?
General impression is that california public schools suck relative to the rest of the nation. That is where my surprise stemmed from.
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I agree but i noticed schools from cupertino, fremont and palo alto (bay area) in there and was very surprised to find them there. Are you telling me that bay area schools are really that good compared to RTP ?
Well, I think that Cupertino is the 'creme de la creme' of the Bay Area. We looked at moving to the Bay Area a few years ago and Cupertino was by far the priciest suburb and the one with the best schools. It would have been a minimum of $1 million to buy a house there and it would have been very very tiny compared to what we can get here.
I think tluv nailed it with the "nicest turd in the toilet" observation.
I honestly don't recall a list of top 1000 high schools nationally that did not include Enloe, Broughton, Raleigh Charter and Chapel Hill High Schools. The lists usually also include Jordan, Riverside & Northern High Schools in Durham, too. I just cannot imagine that all of the top high schools in this area simply dropped out of the top 1000 list in one year.
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