TAG: You’re It. Well, You’re No. 2. That’s Kind of It.
After a two-year reign as Newsweek’s No. 1 public high school in America, Dallas’ School for the Talented and Gifted falls to No. 2 in the just-released rankings. Another school at Townview Magnet Center, the Science and Engineering school, ranks No. 4 in the country. Dallas had seven schools listed out of the 1300 nationwide, if you count Highland Park at No. 15. The school that would have been my daughter’s next year, Woodrow, came in at No. 518. She will be doing the drama thing, though, at Booker T., which is its own kind of awesome. (Yes, I’ve been straining to find a way to work in that personal fact without making FB my own refrigerator door. I just got tired of waiting.)
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W. T. White is highest comprehensive high school in Dallas ISD at #127 nationally and 16th in Texas from those ranked.
uh-oh now we’ll have another flame war over how the ranking for Woodrow must be wrong (#518) because everyone knows its the bestest HS in Dallas
I suspect that folks that ranked Woodrow that low must have talked to Dreher, and only Dreher
Eric, everyone knows there is more drama at Woodrow - just look at the Cappie Awards and ask Rod Dreher.
We Wildcats can delight in the fact that our rival Hillcrest came in just below us. Also the ‘copycats’ of Lake Highlands were 526 places lower.
And for iconoclasm, we bettered high schools in Richardson, McKinney, Plano and Frisco.
Dang, mine is way down at #35. Ben Franklin (New Orleans, believe it or not) used to be excluded as too super-elite to even be ranked in this list (see sidebar story on “The Public Elites”). But after Katrina it was reincarnated as a charter school and I guess it’s not quite as fantastic as it was before so much population was lost. Back when I was there, we had 35 National Merit semifinalists in my (1981) class of 137 students.
If I had any actual kids, I would be sending them to DISD schools.
I knew there was some reason I like people from New Orleans.