OC/DC: Troy HS Makes Top 100 on Post Challenge List
Posted by: Jeff Solsby | 05/21/2007 10:52 AM
The Washington Post is involved in a "challenge" ranking high schools around the country based on a percentage of students who take AP classes and their relationship to the size of a graduating class in general. A quick search brought no results on private schools in OC (Sorry MDHS, not so sorry Jubal's Servite).
Right near the top however, is Fullerton's Troy High School ranked at number 28.
Chris Norby undoubtedly knows their mascot and perhaps fight song - not possessing the supervisor's reflexive knowledge of school mascots, I'll just say congratulations "Troy."
The full rankings and background on this index are here.
Mr. Ayer registered as a Republican to be electable in an interim election with no incumbents. He did...
Read a little closer: This is a ranking of public shcools, not private.
It doesn't appear McKinnley in Cerritos didn't make it which is a surprise.
Score one for Public Education!
Troy is an excellent High School.
Garth,
I presume McKinnley is not on the list for the same reason Irvine's Uni High is not:
The rating is not a measurement of the overall quality of the school but illuminates one factor that many educators consider important.
Look closer, I think this is a misleading metric:
Tests taken by all students, not just seniors, are counted, ...[divided] by the number of seniors who graduated in June
To do well on this measure a principal would encourage all kids the school to take APs tests multiple times whether or not they are ready, while making sure to keep kids away from the graduation podium who weren't taking AP exams. Worse, the very best schools are explicitly excluded:
schools with SAT combined verbal and math averages higher than 1300, or ACT average scores above 27, are not included
Uni made the list:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/challengeindex/calif/irvine/university/
I had brunch at CHOMPS last Sunday with my best friend from high school. Afterward we saw a property two blocks away from Troy where his daughter currently attends. He raved about Troy and the City of Fullerton. It was the first time I'd ever been to the downtown area.