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Just as the city announced it would close three failing schools, it turns out nine city high schools made a list of top public schools in the country. U.S. News & World Report ranked Stuyvesant as #23 on its Top 100 high schools list; other NYC mentions were H.S. of American Studies (29), Dual Languages & Asian Studies (31), Staten Island Tech (32), Bronx Science (33), Baccalaureate School of Global Education in LIC (38), Queens H.S. of Science (48), Brooklyn Tech (67) and Townsend Haris H.S. (71). As for the failing schools, NY1 reports that JHS 40 in Manhattan will be phased over over two years, PS 90 in the Bronx will be replaced by two new schools, and PS 225 will be split into elementary and middle schools. Other schools may be up for closing or phasing out in future weeks.
Highs and Lows of City Public Schools
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Bloomberg sucks, nyc spents so much money on schools and yet we still underperform the rest of the country.
Does it really mean anything if schools "close"? If the students are just crammed into another crowded school or if the "closed" school is officially split up into "new and improved" schools with the same staff and equipment does it make any difference in the long run?
SI Tech made it at number 26. Staten Island is still a part of New York City right? :)
Sorry, SI Tech was 32.
I am disappointed that Stuy was only 23. At least they're finally including it in their list, albeit lower than it should be.
As good as their school may be, Staten Island will always suck.
Go Brooklyn Tech! I hated that place, it's built like a prison.
#1 Money means nothing. When your parents don't give a shit about anything beyond your report card, don't care to intervene, and leave everything at the doorstep of the public school, it makes no difference how much money you throw at the kids. When you treat learning as an external institution and you feel that you have no responsibilities as a parent, then things don't work out well.
What, no Hunter College HS?
Interesting that the list has a statistic called "Minority enrollment" under "Demographics, and it only included blacks and Hispanics. Last I checked, there are more blacks and Hispanics than all Asians combined.
@ANGRYGOD11
Thats a very good question. DOE Schools are so secretive to the internet.
As far as I know, the schools become de-zoned and become merit/lottery schools, so the animals get transferred to legacy zoned schools which are in a better condition to dilute the animals out.
I know administratively they are separate schools, and plenty of new pork jobs are made in the process, since there are 2 people hired for everything. Teacher wise (ultimately who is responsible for not preventing the animals in middle schools from being made), I don't know if they get reassigned, or they get split up into the 2 new schools. I also wonder whether kids of the 2 schools ever meet in common spaces or not and to what extent. Nothing like putting future Stuy nerds in the same room with bloods and crips during lunch (1 is a magnet school, the other is the legacy school).
Waitaminute. Their selection criteria was based almost entirely on how many AP exams kids took. I mean, Jesus. Stuy limits the number of APs you can take based on your grades, so of course it would be lower. Also, did anyone look at the percentage of disadvantaged students at the other schools? The ostensible number one has 1.4%. And even lower minority enrollment than Stuy, which I wouldn't have thought possible.
I'd like to hand out a grain of salt to all of you now.