OLPE — Students and staff at Olpe High School have another reason to celebrate — national recognition by U.S. News & World Report.
U.S. News & World Report awarded 39 Kansas high schools with bronze awards in the first-ever ranking of America’s Best High Schools. The magazine used “a formula produced in collaboration with School Evaluation Services, a K-12 data research and analysis business run by Standard & Poor’s, which put high schools in 40 states through a three-step analysis.”
The analysis included progress on state tests, how well disadvantaged students did and if the school provides college-level course work. More than 18,000 schools across the country were evaluated.
According to the magazine, nationally, 505 schools received gold or silver medals. USD 252’s Olpe High School was awarded a bronze award. The school is one of 1,068 schools across the country to receive the bronze ranking. Of the schools ranked bronze, 924 had less than 25 percent poverty enrollment and 16 had no significant poverty enrollment.
Forty-two of the bronze winners are charter schools and 41 are magnet schools.
In Kansas, enrollment numbers of schools ranked ranged from 47 students to 1,594 students.
create (anonymous) says...
What great news, Olpe Eagles, teachers, and principal Shari Hatfield. Good for you. EVERYBODY gets a click!!!
February 13, 2008 at 3:14 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
create (anonymous) says...
If anyone would like to check the other schools in Kansas, here's the website on U.S. News and World Report.
http://www.usnews.com/directories/hig...
February 13, 2008 at 3:27 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
open_eyes (anonymous) says...
Congratulations ALSO to Marais Des Cygnes, another Lyon County League school, for also receiving a bronze rating.
February 13, 2008 at 5 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
zippy (anonymous) says...
Good Job!!!!!
February 13, 2008 at 6:35 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )