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Home Area News SSHS Receives Silver Rating from U.S. News and World Report
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Saturday, 12 May 2012 07:33 |
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U.S.News and World Report recently ranked the Best High Schools in the nation and for each state. Siloam Springs was ranked 22nd in Arkansas out of 327. And # 1994 in the nation out of 21,776 that were reviewed.
Criteria was based on: does the school serve all students?
Step 1: do the school's students perform better than the average student in the state? Then looked at whether the economically disadvantaged were scoring better than the average?
Step 2: do the school's sub pops (black, Hispanic, low income) perform better than state averages for those sub pops?
Step 3: which schools produced the best college-level achievement for the highest % of students? Figured by counting # of 2009-10 graduates that took an AP class and then the # who "passed" an AP class with a 3,4, or 5.
500 schools across nation received Gold medals, #'s 501 thru 2008 received Silver medals, and an additional 2869 high schools received Bronze medals but were not ranked. Ratings are based on a three step process: 1. Overall student performance on state tests 2. Performing better than the state average for the least advantaged students 3. Performance on college-level Advanced Placement (AP) exams or International Baccalaureate (IB) exams
Click HERE to see more information from US News and World Report.
Charlie Abernathy, 5/11/12 For more information check out the
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