Best High Schools: Gold and Silver Medal Schools by the Numbers

By U.S. News Staff

December 9, 2009 RSS Feed Print

Summary Statistics
Number of schools analyzed	18,743
Number of states analyzed (includes DC)	49
Number of states with at least one school identified (gold or silver)	46

	Gold		Silver		Top Performers (Gold and Silver)
	Totals	% of Total	Totals	% of Total	Totals	% of Total
Total schools identified	100	0.5%	461	2.5%	561	3.0%
Poverty Distribution
Schools with poverty enrollment ≥ 25%	36	36.0%	196	42.5%	232	41.4%
Schools with poverty enrollment ≥ 50%	15	15.0%	116	25.2%	131	23.4%
Schools with poverty enrollment ≥ 75%	8	8.0%	38	8.2%	46	8.2%
Schools with no significant poverty enrollment (<5% or "N/A")	34	34.0%	115	24.9%	149	26.6%
Title I schools (i.e., receiving some Title I assistance)	26	26.0%	178	38.6%	204	36.4%
Schools with Schoolwide Title I (i.e., with concentrated poverty)	17	17.0%	100	21.7%	117	20.9%
Minority Distribution
Schools with minority enrollment ≥ 25%	42	42.0%	196	42.5%	238	42.4%
Schools with minority enrollment ≥ 50%	23	23.0%	129	28.0%	152	27.1%
Schools with minority enrollment ≥ 75%	9	9.0%	75	16.3%	84	15.0%
Schools with no significant minority enrollment (<5% or "N/A")	23	23.0%	82	17.8%	105	18.7%
Schools with no significant minorities tested (i.e., no achievement gap data)	22	22.0%	96	20.8%	118	21.0%
School Structure
Charter schools	16	16.0%	25	5.4%	41	7.3%
Magnet schools	22	22.0%	47	10.2%	69	12.3%
Schools with selective admissions criteria	48	48.0%	58	12.6%	106	18.9%
Schools with lottery admissions	19	19.0%	61	13.2%	80	14.3%
Schools with open admissions	33	33.0%	342	74.2%	375	66.8%
Community Environment
Schools in large cities	40	40.0%	103	22.3%	143	25.5%
Schools in mid-size cities	11	11.0%	49	10.6%	60	10.7%
Schools in small cities	11	11.0%	37	8.0%	48	8.6%
Schools in suburban areas of large cities	32	32.0%	177	38.4%	209	37.3%
Schools in suburban areas of mid-size cities	0	0.0%	15	3.3%	15	2.7%
Schools in suburban areas of small cities	1	1.0%	5	1.1%	6	1.1%
Schools in towns on fringe of urban areas	0	0.0%	10	2.2%	10	1.8%
Schools in towns distant from urban areas	0	0.0%	6	1.3%	6	1.1%
Schoolls in remote towns	0	0.0%	7	1.5%	7	1.2%
Schools in rural areas on fringe of urban areas	4	4.0%	36	7.8%	40	7.1%
Schools in rural areas distant from urban areas	1	1.0%	10	2.2%	11	2.0%
Schools in remote rural areas	0	0.0%	6	1.3%	6	1.1%

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because of relocation we trying to find a best HS w/ fine Art program in VA, something similar to Laguardia for Art and Performing Arts school in NY(our child just finished 10th grade there). Any suggestions? Thanks a lot

Steve of NY 10:21PM July 19, 2010

I wish to bring to your attention that our school would like to twine with any shool in America that may have an interest to do so with a School in Africa.
The name of the Primary School is Kashinda and it is situated in the remote Northern part of Mporokoso District in Northern Province of Zambia.
It has a population of 500 pupils of which 390 are girls and the rest are boys.This enrolment is shared against 11 teachers. The school runs on a single stream from grades 1 to 9 and it has only 7 classrooms.
Our prime interest is to allow our children in the remote village to get exporsed to the outside world by way of making freindship with stundents in the developed world.
Kindly help us to look for such a school.

BWALYA CORNELIUS of WA 3:19AM June 15, 2010

In Virginia, cities are entirely separate entities from counties; they have different governments, different law enforcement agencies, different school systems, different tax collection systems. They are completely different, with each providing identical services for citizens that rarely overlap or are shared.
The city of Alexandria has a single public high school--T.C. Williams. West Potomac, Mt. Vernon, Edison, and Hayfield are all Fairfax County schools, and none are within the limits of the City of Alexandria. The confusion here is due to the vagaries of USPS addressing, which does not always follow along with municipal boundaries. I live in Fairfax County, in the Edison HS district, but my mailing address is "Alexandria."
TJ's eligibility page, http://www.tjhsst.edu/abouttj/admissions/eligibility.php, says that only residents of the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, and Prince William and the cities of Fairfax and Falls Church are eligible to attend.

dlc of VA 1:44PM May 14, 2010

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