Thanks to Brentwood resident Libby Armstrong for sharing a link to Newsweek's just released 2009 list of top-ranked public schools.
Out of the 1480 schools ranked, Brentwood High School is 211 while Ravenwood comes in at 395. Of course, this is no surprise to those of us who live here but it's always great to get national recognition.
Brentwood's ranking dropped slightly from 2008, moving to 211 from 192 in 2008 but up from 223 in 2007. It has been on this list in 2006 (234), 2005 (339) and 2003 (315).
Ravenwood moved up from its 473 standing last year. The city's newest high school also scored in 2007 (577) and 2006 (468).
Congratulations to all the students, teachers, staff and support personnel who work so hard to earn this recognition.
"Public schools are ranked according to a ratio devised by Jay Mathews: the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2008 divided by the number of graduating seniors. All of the schools on the list have an index of at least 1.000; they are in the top 6 percent of public schools measured this way," Newsweek reports.
Check it out yourself at www.newsweek.com/id/201160/?GT1=43002
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