High on the High School List

In a recently published U.S. News & World Report online list of Best High Schools for 2009, 23 gold, silver and bronze winners – as well as three honorable mentions – hailed from 24 NYSIR subscriber districts around New York State.

The magazine collaborated with School Evaluation Services, a K-12 education and data research and analysis firm, to weigh academic and enrollment numbers from more than 21,000 public high schools across the country. Out of that statistical potpourri came what U.S. News & World Report ascertained to be the very best of the classroom crop, and – no surprise – the harvest included more than two dozen NYSIR member schools.

Gold winners included Blind Brook, Horace Greeley and Scarsdale Senior high schools in Westchester County; Cold Spring Harbor High School in Suffolk County; Great Neck South, Jericho Senior and Wheatley high schools in Nassau County; and Pittsford-Mendon and Pittsford Sutherland high schools in Monroe County.

Silver winners included Akron High School in Erie County; Brighton and Honeoye Falls-Lima Senior high schools in Monroe County; Byram Hills High School in Westchester County; Harborfields High School in Suffolk County; Carle Place Middle Senior High School in Nassau County; Colton-Pierrepont Junior-Senior High School in St. Lawrence County; Ithaca Senior High School in Tompkins County; New Hartford Senior High School in Oneida County; and Ticonderoga Senior and Keene Central high schools in Essex County.

Clymer Central School, McGraw High School and Wilson High School in Chautauqua, Cortland and Niagara counties, respectively, made the Bronze list, and Honorable Mentions went to Great Neck North High School in Nassau County and Hastings and Rye high schools in Westchester County.

Now that’s what going to the head of the class is all about. Congratulations to all the winners and their proud districts.