25 High schools with the highest standardized test scores

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<p>[The</a> 25 US High Schools With The Highest Standardized Test Scores | Business Insider India](<a href=“http://www.businessinsider.in/The-25-US-High-Schools-With-The-Highest-Standardized-Test-Scores/articleshow/29172952.cms]The”>The 25 US High Schools With The Highest Standardized Test Scores | Business Insider India)</p>

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<p>The list is inaccurate. It’s based on self-reported data from students? That’s what it seems to say.</p>

<p>My offspring’s school is not on the list. I know that it has higher scores than 2 of the schools listed in the top 10.</p>

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<p>Where do you see the scores?</p>

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<p>Magnet High Schools and elite private schools have high SAT scores. This is news?</p>

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<p>And in late breaking news- neurosurgeons make more money than nursery school teachers.</p>

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<p>“While some universities and employers, like Google and IBM, are down-playing the value of SAT and ACT scores, other research holds that this data is highly reliable and a valid measure of brainpower.”</p>

<p>Breaking news, publications in India know that parents there want to hear that high test scores are the most important thing in determining their child’s future.
Has anyone ever been asked for SAT scores on a job application?</p>

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<p>OK, when you click on the name, you can scroll down and see the score. But in the text it says there must be at least 100 respondents, but the extra info indicates that not 100 kids responded at the schools I looked up. This is worthless. Seems it would be reasonably easy to get the HS profile from schools and get more accurate data.</p>

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<p>The problem with looking at just scores for a high school is you need to look at the demographics of the school. The district to our immediate west (3 blocks from my house) is consistently touted as one of the best in the state, nation, blah, blah… There is NO diversity with regard to income. Our district is 20+% free and reduced lunch, so our tests scores look lousy compared to theirs. However, if you compare our top 25% of our class to theirs! our SAT scores are higher and we have more Ivy admissions that’s they do, despite more legacy candidates in theirs. </p>

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<p>It’s not just “brainpower” that gets you a job. It’s the totality of how you present yourself. </p>

<p>And I agree completely with mathmom - gee, magnet schools and affluent areas have better test scores. Duh. </p>

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<p>Students at some of these schools start prepping for SATs in 8th or 9th grades. They BETTER have higher scores! </p>

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<p>^Right, they’re not actually smarter. They just prep a lot for the SAT. Ugh.</p>

<p>The truth is that a lot of these students lead an intellectual lifestyle, meaning that they continually look to stretch themselves academically. If and when they actually study for the SAT, it’s to improve academic abilities which are not otherwise being exercised. I had a word-a-day calendar for years. It probably helped my writing in addition to the verbal SAT. But even if i had done it for the SAT, who cares? What’s the difference? </p>

<p>The SAT is similar to the NFL football combine in a lot of ways, which is a multi-faceted athletic test in which you do sprinting, weightlifting, jumping, etc… Yes, you can get better by specifically training for it. No, it doesn’t complete translate to success on the field. But the best way to be good at the combine is by training athletically for years as well as having talent. But people don’t talk about the NFL combine being artificial like they do with the SAT.</p>

<p>Other than the valid point about self-reporting of scores, I don’t see why this ranking is any more dumb than any other ranking, whether academic or athletic. I think these lists are useful. Some of these magnet schools are relatively new, and don’t have a couple of hundred years of “relationships” between them and the admissions office at good schools. A little visibility and recognition might help. </p>

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<p>This ranking is unethical, because it is wrong. The Niche site operators have a responsibility to publish correct data. I found these stats online, mostly on the schools’ websites. Many of the figures are published on the school profile sent to colleges. Remember, schools receive a copy of students’ SAT scores.</p>

<p>In every single case, the real scores are lower.</p>

<p>These are fine high schools. Self-reporting of SAT scores by a self-selected subset of students means nothing.</p>

<p>I could not find scores for Dalton, nor Marlborough school. I stopped checking after 8 schools. I’m sure every other school has lower scores than reported by Niche.</p>

<p>So, school, SAT score from profile or other source, web link to score source, then Niche survey score. </p>

<p>Harker 2167 <a href=“http://littleandmolligan.com/school/harker-school/[/url]”>http://littleandmolligan.com/school/harker-school/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Niche, 2210, from 59 surveyed students. </p>

<p>Thomas Jefferson 2194
<a href=“http://www.tjhsst.edu/abouttj/schoolprofile/docs/2013_14_TJHSST%20Profile.pdf[/url]”>http://www.tjhsst.edu/abouttj/schoolprofile/docs/2013_14_TJHSST%20Profile.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Niche: 2220, based on 92 students</p>

<p>Stuyvesant, 2102, <a href=“http://stuy.enschool.org/ourpages/auto/2013/3/7/37096823/Stuyvesant%20Profile%202013-2014.pdf[/url]”>http://stuy.enschool.org/ourpages/auto/2013/3/7/37096823/Stuyvesant%20Profile%202013-2014.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Niche, 2170, based on 465 students</p>

<p>Packer, 1996, <a href=“http://www.packer.edu/uploaded/downloads/Upper_School/PACKER_School_Profile_2013-14.pdf[/url]”>http://www.packer.edu/uploaded/downloads/Upper_School/PACKER_School_Profile_2013-14.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>niche: 2100, based on 55 students</p>

<p>Illinois Mathematics & Science Academy</p>

<p>1977 <a href=“https://www.imsa.edu/sites/default/files/upload/2014_final_profile_2.pdf[/url]”>https://www.imsa.edu/sites/default/files/upload/2014_final_profile_2.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>niche 2150, based on 86 students</p>

<p>Henry M Gunn, 1947, class of 2013, <a href=“http://gunn.pausd.org/sites/default/files/Gunn%20Profile%202013-14.pdf[/url]”>http://gunn.pausd.org/sites/default/files/Gunn%20Profile%202013-14.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Niche, 2080, based on 113 students</p>

<p>Phillips Exeter, 2100, <a href=“http://www.exeter.edu/documents/2014_Profile_for_Colleges.pdf[/url]”>http://www.exeter.edu/documents/2014_Profile_for_Colleges.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Niche, 2120, based on 107 students</p>

<p>Middlesex, 2070, <a href=“http://mxschool.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/Middlesex%20School%20Profile%202012-2013.pdf[/url]”>http://mxschool.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/Middlesex%20School%20Profile%202012-2013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>niche 2120, 63 students</p>