Boston magazine named Canton High School as one of the best public high schools in Massachusetts in its September 2012 issue, ranking number 45 out of the top 50.
Boston magazine crunched the numbers in an exclusive ranking of the 50 best public high schools within the greater Boston area, all 230 of them. Rankings were based on data gathered from consulting school officials and websites, as well as from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Determining factors of the district rankings include test scores, number of Advanced Placement classes, graduation rate, percent of students who continue to college, as well as the amount of sports teams and clubs. While per pupil spending and student to teacher ratio was still included in the rankings, the importance placed on these figures was dialed back slightly as recent studies show that they are not educational silver bullets.
George Recck, director of the Math Resource Center at Babson College, calculated the mean scores for each category and then ranked the districts based on a weighted average of each school data point’s difference from the mean.
For data on all 230 high schools in greater Boston, visit www.bostonmagazine.com/schools.
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on Sep 13 2012. Filed under News, Schools.