Nearly 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

Nearly 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.