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Catahoula schools on 'Best High Schools' list
Thirty-nine Louisiana high schools, including two from Catahoula, were among the list of schools recognized by U.S. News and World Report as the country's Best High Schools and received gold, silver or bronze medal rankings.
Sicily Island High and Harrisonburg High were named to the Bronze Medal Schools.
"We want to congratulate district and school leaders as well as the faculty and staff at these schools for their work and the honor of earning this distinction," said Board of Elementary and Secondary Education President Keith Guice, the former superintendent of Catahoula Parish Schools. "We are eager to advance so that every high school makes the list, as one of the key priorities for our state is the reformation of high schools so that all students are prepared to thrive in the knowledge-based economy and global market regardless of what direction they take after high-school."
Benjamin Franklin Senior High School in New Orleans, which was ranked as the 16th best in the nation, earned a cherished gold medal and was the subject of a feature story in the report, "The High School that Beat Katrina." To derive the list, the magazine analyzed more than 21,000 public high schools in 48 states.
"We are very proud to have so many of our state's high schools included on the list," said State Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek. "Considering the tremendous role our high schools play in preparing our young people to succeed in post-secondary education and careers, it is beneficial to be included in this study and encouraging that the examination resulted in such a positive report for our state."
Four Louisiana high schools earned silver medals, including Baton Rouge High School (East Baton Rouge Parish), Bolton High School (Rapides Parish), Caddo Parish Magnet High School (Caddo Parish), and LSU Laboratory School (East Baton Rouge Parish). All total, ten percent of the state's schools that were evaluated earned a medal distinction - landing Louisiana at number 17 in terms of the percentage of schools in each state recognized on the list.
In collaboration with School Evaluation Services, a K-12 education data research business run by Standard & Poors, U.S. News and World Report analyzed academic and enrollment data from 21,069 schools using 2006-2007 information. The report is based on key principles that "a great high school must serve all its students well, not just those who are bound for college and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show that the school is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators."
The first two steps of the study relied on state proficiency standards and considered statistics, such as the socio-economic levels of students, to determine how well students in each school were performing compared to similar students in the state. During the final step, schools that made it past the first two steps were judged based on college-readiness measures.
The list of Bronze Medal Schools in Louisiana includes Anacoco High School, Arcadia High School and Castor High School (Bienville Parish), Avoyelles High School, Avoyelles Public Charter School and Marksville High School (Avoyelles Parish), Berwick High School (St. Mary Parish), Calvin High School (Winn Parish), Chalmette High School (St. Bernard Parish), Ebard High School, Florien High School and Zwolle High School (Sabine Parish), Forest School and Kilbourne High School (West Carroll Parish), Gueydan High School (Vermilion Parish), Harrisonburg High School and Sicily Island High School (Catahoula Parish), and Hathaway High School (Jefferson Davis Parish).
Also on the list of Bronze Medal winners were Holden High School (Livingston Parish), Hornbeck High School and Pitkin High School (Vernon Parish), Lafayette High School (Lafayette Parish), Loreauville High School (Iberia Parish), Lusher Charter School (Orleans Parish), Mamou High School (Evangeline Parish), McKinley Senior High School (East Baton Rouge Parish), Northshore High School (St. Tammany Parish), Phoenix High School (Plaquemines Parish), Starks High School (Calcasieu Parish), St. James High School (St. James Parish), Varnado High School (Washington Parish), West Feliciana High School (West Feliciana Parish), Weston High School (Jackson Parish), and Winnfield Senior High School (Winnfield Parish). |
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