Rating High Schools in U.S.

Jay Mathews has been maintaining the Newsweek’s America’s Best High Schools list since 1998, until this year when he moved that list to The Washington Post. Newsweek editors have created their own list based on a different way of rating schools.

Here's old methodology

High Schools ranking from Washington Post
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/highschoolchallenge/schools/2011/list/new-york-schools/

"The Challenge Index list uses only one factor — the ratio of college level tests to graduating seniors — to rank schools."

High Schools from Rochester, New York

010 Brighton
015 Odyssey Academy
016 Pittsford Sutherland
018 Pittsford Mendon
031 Victor
065 Joseph C. Wilson Magnet
102 Penfield
112 East Rochester

The new methodology

High Schools ranking from Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/content/newsweek/feature/2011/americas-best-high-schools.html

"Our new criteria have six components: graduation rate (25%), college matriculation rate (25%), and AP tests taken per graduate (25%), plus average SAT/ACT scores (10%), average AP/IB scores (10%), and AP courses offered per graduate (5%)."

High Schools from Rochester, New York

073 Pittsford Sutherland
099 Pittsford Mendon
147 Brighton
175 Greece Odyssey Academy
245 Fairport
283 Penfield
349 Irondequoit
351 Victor

Both rankings listed 8 schools from Rochester and 5 schools appear on both listings.