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At least 80% of the best public high schools in the US are urban [1]. You’ll also notice that many of the most urban of them have well over 1000 students while
by OldHand2018 5y ago
At least 80% of the best public high schools in the US are urban [1]. You’ll also notice that many of the most urban of them have well over 1000 students while the best of the suburban ones are generally only a few hundred students.
The worst schools in urban areas (just like the worst schools in rural and suburban areas) need to be dramatically improved, but you do not help the situation by claiming all urban schools are terrible.
EDIT - If you have a California-centric view, it might be a little more understandable. Look at that list and you see that Los Angeles and San Francisco have 1 school each on the list. New York City has 12, Miami-Dade has 6, Chicago has 5, Houston and Dallas 4 each.
[1] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/national-rankings https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/national-...
- caeril 5y agoThe majority of those schools are suburban, not urban. It should also be noted that nearly all of them are "public" in name only. The BASIS schools, for instance, where my kids attend, are Charter schools, where parents are not technically required to, but shamed mercilessly into, "donating" what is effectively slightly discounted private school tuition.
- JackFr 5y agoNearly every one of those nationally ranked urban high schools are magnet schools, which in no way are representative of those school systems in general. As an example in New York annually about 30,000 kids take the specialized high school acceptance test, and about 800-850 are offered admission to Stuyvesant HS, one of the most elite. It is not the same experience of a neighborhood high school in a poor neighborhood.