Schools
Local High Schools Not Ranked by Newsweek
Top 2,000 public schools across nation placed in annual standings, none from Sussex County crack list.
Hopatcong and Sparta High Schools both missed the top-2,000 high schools in the nation as ranked by Newsweek in its annual report released this week.
The standings showed 93 schools from New Jersey made the master list, but none from Sussex County could crack the top 2,000. Just nine schools from Morris County made the list.
Newsweek prefaced the list by saying the schools were ranked by how effective they were in turning out college-ready graduates. There are six components that factored into the listing methodology:
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- Graduation rate
- College acceptance rate
- AP/IB/AICE tests taken per student
- Average SAT/ACT scores
- Average AP/IB/AICE scores
- Percent of students enrolled in at least one AP/IB/AICE course
In April,
Neither Hopatcong or Sparta High Schools made that list, either. No Sussex County school made the top rankings there as well.
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