FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, May 31, 2012

CONTACT: John Schuster
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
305-995-1126

39 M-DCPS HIGH SCHOOLS RANKED AMONG
THE WASHINGTON POST’S MOST CHALLENGING SCHOOLS

The Washington Post newspaper recently published its 2012 high school rankings of 1,921 schools in the nation, and 39 Miami-Dade County public schools were listed among America’s most challenging high schools.  A total of 311 schools in Florida made the list.

Post education columnist and blogger, Jay Mathews, began rating public high schools in 1998 after observing teachers such as Jaime Escalante of East Los Angeles – the inspiration behind the movie “Stand and Deliver” – prove that average students could thrive in Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB) and Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) tests if given extra time and encouragement.

The Challenge index score is determined by dividing the number of AP, IB and AICE exams given at a school each year by the number of seniors who graduate. Schools are ranked in order of ratio. A full list of schools can be found at www.washingtonpost.com/highschoolchallenge. Below is the Miami-Dade list in national order:

8 - Young Women's Preparatory Academy
55 - Coral Reef Senior High
74 - School for Advanced Studies
132 - MAST Academy
211 - Miami Palmetto Senior High
283 - Miami Beach Senior High
293 - Miami Killian Senior High
363 - Design and Architecture Senior High
457 - Homestead Senior High
511 - Coral Gables Senior High
613 - North Miami Senior High
615 - American Senior High
697 - New World School of the Arts
704 - Robert Morgan Educational Center
724 - Ronald Reagan – Doral Senior High
781 - Southwest Miami Senior High
824 - John A. Ferguson Senior High
856 - Miami Northwestern Senior High
993 - Miami Lakes Educational Center

1020 - South Dade Senior High
1066 - South Miami Senior High
1113 - G. Holmes Braddock Senior High
1117 - Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High
1128 - Miami Sunset Senior High
1144 - Hialeah Senior High
1257 - Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High
1348 - Felix Varela Senior High
1394 - North Miami Beach Senior High
1440 - Barbara Goleman Senior High
1468 - Miami Senior High
1503 - Miami Springs Senior High
1524 - Miami Coral Park Senior High
1581 - Miami Carol City Senior High
1762 - Miami Jackson Senior High
1765 - Westland Hialeah Senior High
1792 - Miami Edison Senior High
1903 - Miami Southridge Senior High

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