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US News High School Rankings to be Released Tuesday

Chatham High placed seventh on the list in 2012.

U.S. News & World Report is expected to release their 2013 high school rankings Tuesday morning.

Chatham High School came out near the top of the list in 2012, ranked seventh of New Jersey's 389 public high schools.

Chatham High typically ranks high on any ratings list of New Jersey's public schools. 

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In August 2012 the school was ranked as the No. 20 high school in the state by New Jersey Monthly magazine, a drop of 12 spots from the 2010 list. Board of Education President Thomas K. Belding said the drop was due to errors in the state Department of Education's (DOE) annual report cards and changes in how the DOE measures data.

Belding said NJ Monthly did not take data from schools, but from the state. "Frankly I don’t think the state has responded or corrected the data. If NJ Monthly took the raw data, that creates all kinds of issues," he said.

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U.S. News & World Report's rankings are based on student-to-teacher ratios, college readiness and High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) scores.

Superintendent Dr. Michael LaSusa said he does not put "a lot of stock unto any one ranking, as I think it is more important to focus on the quality of experience students receive in our schools and the outcomes they ultimately display by the time they graduate."

Chatham High received a 61.9 college rediness index out of a possible 100. The publication states that a score of 100 "means that every 12th-grade student during the 2009-10 academic year in a particular school took and passed at least one AP or IB test before or during their senior year."

According to U.S. News, there are 294 districts with 389 high schools in New Jersey, employing 30,807 teachers educating 421,215 students.

Below are Chatham High's rankings from U.S. News & World Report's 2012 rankings.

State Rank Students:Teachers College Readiness

Math (average proficiency)

English (average proficiency)

 

7 in New Jersey; 173 in nation 16:1 (larger than state average) 61.9 above state average 3.5 Above NJ Avg

93% Proficient

7% Not Proficient


3.4 Above NJ Avg

98% Proficient

2% Not Proficient



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