Newsweek’s ‘Best High Schools list’ has plenty from California

06-18-2010

Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess

More than one out of six – about 18 percent – of public high schools on this year’s list of Newsweek’s “best high schools” are from California. They make up 285 of the 1,663 schools on the list, which comprise 6 percent out of America’s 27,000 high schools. Ten California high schools made the top 100, including four charter high schools. The top three are Oxford Academy (#11) in Cyprus, a school for the academically gifted that requires an entrance exam; and two charter schools: Preuss (#16), which is affiliated with the UC-San Diego and consists totally of low-income students, and Pacific Collegiate (#19) in Santa Cruz, whose low-income students comprise only 3 percent of the student body. (more...)

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