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7 area high schools ranked among best in U.S. by magazine
Niskayuna highest-rated in Capital Region
BY TATIANA ZARNOWSKI Gazette Reporter
Reach Gazette reporter Tatiana Zarnowski at 885-6705 or tzarnowski@dailygazette.net.


    These local school districts were ranked among the best 2,000 high schools in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. The first number is the national ranking, the second number is the state ranking.

    A few local high schools, including Niskayuna, Bethlehem and Shenendehowa, made a national list of best high schools for U.S. News & World Report.
    The online publication released the 2012 rankings last Monday.
    U.S. News evaluated 22,000 high schools in 49 states based on proficiency in English and math, how well students are prepared for college and how well minority and low-income students do compared with the average of the same groups in their state.
    The top 2,000 schools received number rankings.
    Niskayuna High School ranked the highest of the local school districts, with a national standing of 743 and 94th in the state.
    Niskayuna’s high test scores — 98 percent of students are proficient in English and 99 percent are proficient in math — earned it a 37.7 college readiness index out of 100, higher than any other local school district.
    The college readiness index is based on Advanced Placement class participation rate and how well students did on AP tests. Niskayuna boasts 40 percent participation in AP classes.
    Ballston Spa Senior High School, which plans to roll out its International Baccalaureate program for students next year, has a 28.9 college readiness index.
    Its English and math profi ciency rates are 96 and 95 percent, respectively.
    Shenendehowa High School has 98 percent and 99 percent profi - ciency rates in English and math, respectively. Its college readiness index is 28.1.
    Shenendehowa and Ballston Spa have the highest student/teacher ratio of the local ranked schools at 15:1.
    Schuylerville Junior-Senior High School has the lowest student/ teacher ratio, with one teacher for every 11 students.
    The small district’s college readiness index is 26.4.
    Of the local school districts on the list, Shaker High School had the highest minority enrollment at 19 percent, and most of the minorities are black and Asian.
    Niskayuna had the second highest minority rate — 14 percent — and most of the minorities are of Asian descent.
    Schuylerville had the most economically disadvantaged students — 18 percent.
    Shenendehowa is the largest of the named school districts, with 3,018 students, and Schuylerville is the smallest with 816.
    Though it didn’t receive a number ranking, Mohonasen Senior High School got a bronze medal for its test profi ciency rates, which were 95 percent in both English and math, and other factors. Its college readiness score is 13.8, not enough to qualify it for a numbered ranking.

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Schenectady is in a grand renaissance!  

Wonder how McC is going to attract people to buy homes and move INTO the city?

Oh yeah, Schenectady has more "electives" so it's great.   Yeah, finger-nail painting, play dough classes, babysitting, the classes for "wannabee Hollywood stars," etc.    Can't even pass basic tests.


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