The Public Elites
NEWSWEEK excluded these high performers from the list of America's Best High Schools because so many of their students score well above the avarage on the SAT and ACT.
Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts—Hot Springs, Ark.: Affiliated with the University of Arkansas
Bergen County Academies—Hackensack, N.J.: An amalgamate of seven specialized schools
Benjamin Franklin—New Orleans: Highly competitive school; doubled courseload in spring '06 to make up for lost semester after Katrina.
Bronx Science—New York: Ethnically and economically diverse; specializing in science and math.
Gretchen Whitney—Cerritos, Calif.: Award-winning school with special emphasis on college admissions.
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Posted By: CMJohnson1 @ 05/27/2008 12:54:12 PM
Comment: The Boston Latin School outside of the top 100? It's amazing that anyone takes this list seriously. US News and World Report had them at #19, and that is probably too low.
Posted By: Thoughful onthe Issues @ 05/20/2008 5:31:15 PM
Comment: Maybe they didn't pay their "Newsweek" dues.
Posted By: maddunkartist @ 05/19/2008 6:21:15 PM
Comment: How can you have a list of elite public schools without having Lowell High School of San Francisco. It is the oldest high school west of the Mississippi, and has a rich list of famous alumni, including a Supreme Court Justice, the president of Yale University and a Nobel Peace prize winning scientist just to name a few. It ranks near the top every year in AP tesing, and it has the highest graduate admission rate to the UC system which is probably the nation's best university system anchored by UC Berkeley.