Orcas High ranks in top 12 Washington state high schools

Orcas Island School District Board President Janet Brownell reported the following news:

US News and World Report just released it’s top high schools in the US. One hundred schools (out of 21,000) received a “Gold” medal. Orcas High received a SILVER MEDAL. To read more about it, go to https://www.usnews.com/sections/education/high-schools/ In Washington state only four schools were ranked with a Gold, 12 had a Silver. Only 46 total received ANY recognition. And we were the only San Juan county school ranked.

This is yet another recognition of that we know: we have a FANTASTIC public school system!

Here is some info from the US News and World report website: Best High Schools 2009 Search

U.S.News & World Report—in collaboration with School Evaluation Services, a K-12 education and data research and analysis business that provides parents with education data on schoolmatters.com—analyzed academic and enrollment data from more than 21,000 public high schools to find the very best across the country. These top schools were placed into gold, silver, bronze, or honorable mention categories.

Gold Medal:
Top 100 schools nationally based on the College Readiness Index
Silver Medal:
all other schools with a college readiness index of at least 20 but that are not ranked in the top 100 nationally
Bronze Medal:
either do not offer AP or IB or do not achieve a college readiness index of at least 20 but successfully meet the other two key performance indicator criteria

In Washington State:
* Gold Medal schools (4 schools)
* Silver Medal schools (12 schools)
* Bronze Medal schools (30 schools)
* Honorable Mention schools (0 schools)

Thanks for passing this information on to the rest of us, Janet!