The Public Elites
Northside College Preparatory School—Chicago: All courses taught at either the honors or Advanced Placement level.
Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics—Oklahoma City: Highly selective public boarding school that serves students from all 77 counties.
Pacific Collegiate School—Santa Cruz, Calif.: Emphasizes global awareness and foreign-
language proficiency.
Pine View School for the Gifted—Osprey, Fla.: Admission based on IQ-test scores; selected students score in the top 2 to 3 percent of applicants from Sarasota County.
South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics—Hartsville: All students do a summer research internship.
Stuyvesant H.S.—New York: One of the most competitive public high schools in New York City; average student SAT score is above 1400.
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Member Comments
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.