Undead Astronauts

the list of top US high schools is out again (this is newsweek’s list). see where your school ranks. interesting to see birmingham having the number 2 ranked high school.

see here for last year’s list (this is USNews’ list).

check to see if your old high school is on the list of best high schools in the US.

a funny thing tho. 8asians mentioned that the #1 high school thomas jefferson sci/tech has only 4.9% minority enrollment in their detailed stats. orly!? is that why below that stat, where it shows racial breakdown, u see asians comprise 40.2%? whitney, the #3 ranking school shows 11.5% minorities but has 84.9% asian population. they should really rename that stat to non-asian minority (nam) to clear the confusion no? wiki shows the asian pop to be 4.4% of the US total, so some ppl might be confused about just when exactly to use the word “minority.” do we only apply the minority label to traditionally low academic achieving minorities? really?

Newsweek has come out w/ their yearly ranking of public high schools. some birmingham hs comes in 3rd surprisingly. auburn hs comes in the 300-400 area, and grissom ranks 927 this year. this is lower than grissom has ranked in the past, but every hs on the list ranks w/i the top 6% of the nation.

PS: i took a look at the birmingham school and apparently in 2008, they were considered too elite for the list. that put it in the category of stuyvesant, bronx science, thomas jefferson sci/tech. not sure why they’re back on the list this year.