<p>Seems to me the best objective measure of the “quality” of a high school is the quality its college matric list.</p>
<p>Hopkins, in New Haven, has a terrific matric record (haven’t been able to find it yet. Anybody got it?).</p>
<p>Milton Academy – half day/half boarding – may have the best matric record (in terms of % going on to the top 15-20 most selective nat. universities and the top 15-20 most selective LACs) of any high school in the country with 50+ graduates.</p>
<p>Milton partial matriculation list, class of 2006, 178 graduates, as of 6/9/2006. Source: The Milton Measure</p>
<p>11 Brown
9 Penn
8 Harvard
7 Yale
6 Wesleyan
5 Columbia
5 Tufts
4 Cornell
4 Georgetown
4 Trinity
4 Vanderbilt
4 Oberlin
4 BC
3 MIT
3 Amherst
3 Bowdoin
3 Middlebury
2 NYU
2 CMellon
2 Duke
2 Emory
2 Wellesley
1 Princeton
1 Northwestern
1 JH
1 Pomona
1 Dartmouth
1 Reed
1 Rice
1 Vassar</p>
<p>Most of these schools are top 20 or close. The total – likely to improve some with summer melt – approaches 60% of the graduating class. And I’m sure I forgot to include some other colleges that should also be on this list as well. Does any high school in the country beat this?</p>