Homestead High School ranks high on US News & World Report list

Congratulations to Homestead High School and Southwest Allen County Schools for receiving a high ranking from U.S. News & World Report. Details of Homestead's Silver ranking may be viewed by clicking here.

The other area high schools to be ranked were Garrett High School (Bronze) in DeKalb County and Coldwater High School (Bronze) in Mercer County, Ohio. Ranking of the other Indiana high schools selected may be viewed here.

The Lafayette Journal-Review published:

The information was a collaboration between U.S. News and School Evaluation Services, a K-12 education data research and analysis business.  [ ... ]

The information represents analyzed academic and enrollment data from more than 18,000 public high schools to find the very best across the country. The school were ranked gold (the best), silver (second) and bronze (third).

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The 18,790 public high school analyzed were from the 2005-06 academic year in 40 states.

The top 100 high schools nationwide with the highest college readiness index scores were ranked numerically (ties were broken using the average number of advanced placement exams passed per test taker) and awarded gold medals.

The next 405 top-performing high schools nationwide based on their college readiness earned silver medals.

U.S. News & World Report wrote the following in regard to those range of schools selected:

Like any good photograph, the details of the data gathered for this project reveal a number of fascinating stories. Most notable is the variety among the schools that have earned the highest honor. Our first-place winner, Thomas Jefferson High School in suburban Washington, D.C., picks its students from the children of the nation's leaders. Yet just 10 slots lower, Hidalgo High School on the border of Texas and Mexico has found success educating a student body comprising the children of challenged immigrants.

Comments

[Andy Borgmann]

As a 2001 Homestead Alum, I can say with out a doubt that Homestead High School prepared me incredibly well for college and beyond.

Like many things in life, you never realize what a blessing something is until you are faced with that which is outside your walls. After living for four years in Los Angeles, and now in Atlanta, and seeing what other friends around the country experienced in High School, all i can say is that Homestead was such a blessing.

I often joked with college friends that my hardest year of college was my Junior year of high school. Teachers like Mr. Kuhn, Mr. Schmidt, and so many others should be greatly rewarded for their impact to my generation.

I now live in Atlanta, produce a nationally syndicated talk radio show, and I know with out a doubt I wouldn't be here with out the amazing privilege God placed in my life to attend Homestead High School