U.S. News & World Report Magazine Gives MCSM Silver Medal!

In November, U.S. News and World Report unveiled its list of the top public high schools in the United States. After analyzing data from 18,790 high schools, the news magazine announced its 100 top schools as Gold Medal winners and another 405 schools as Silver Medal winners. Together, these 505 schools represented the top 3% of the nearly 19,000 schools surveyed, and MCSM as a Silver Medal winner, is one of them!

This year’s list was created by analyzing each school’s total student performance on state tests relative to other schools in that state, adjusted for economically disadvantaged students. Performance of minority and low income students was also measured relative to other schools in the same state, and a final factor looked at the school’s performance on Advanced Placement (AP) exams. Only 42 public high schools in New York State (only 16 of them in NYC) rated a Gold or Silver medal, including Baruch College Campus (Silver), Bronx High School of Science (Gold, #20), Brooklyn Tech (Gold, #39), LaGuardia (Silver), Economics & Finance (Silver), Marble Hill HS for International Studies (Silver), NEST+M (Gold, #74), Staten Island Tech (Gold, #22), Stuyvesant (Gold, #15), and Townsend Harris (Gold, #45).

For more information, click on the following highlighted text: U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools 2008.