A list of the nation’s most challenging high schools released by the Washington Post includes seven schools in the Long Beach Unified School District. The 2012 rankings include schools that surpass 91 percent of other high schools nationwide in terms of their ability to offer rigorous college prep courses.
The WP divides the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or other college-level tests a school gave in 2011 by the number of graduating seniors. Only 9 percent of high schools, or about 1,900 schools nationwide, qualified for the list. The report also includes the percentage of students receiving subsidized lunches, a figure illustrating the poverty challenges that schools face.
Local schools rankings (rank, school) on the report (with the percentage of students receiving subsidized lunches) are
- 849, California Academy of Mathematics and Science (49.4%)
- 1,097, Wilson (55.9%)
- 1,212, Avalon (69.8%)
- 1,301, Renaissance (65.7%)
- 1,339, Poly (63.7%)
- 1,366, Millikan (60.6%)
- 1,634, Lakewood (52.5%)
Each of these schools also appeared on the WP rankings last year.
Learn more at:http://apps.washingtonpost.com/local/highschoolchallenge/schools/2012/list/national/