Go Figure

Newsweek has their ranking of the 1200 best high schools in the country available online.

There is one high school from Montana despite the fact that:

• Montana has a high school graduation rate of 84% tieing it for 6th in the country.
• On standardized tests Montana scored well above the national average:

1. Montana is one of the top 15 states in the proportion of high school graduates with scores in the top 20% nationally on either ACT or SAT college entrance examinations.
2. Montana's ACT college entrance examination scores rank 4th highest out of the 25 states in which more than half the graduating seniors took the ACT.
3. Montana public high school students are more likely than private school students to receive grades on Advanced Placement (AP) exams that qualify for college credit.
4. Montana public school students are among the highest scoring in the nation on the Advanced Placement (AP) exam. Montana students have the 7th highest average AP scores in the nation.

considering that the Newsweek survey is entirely based on AP and IB tests it seems odd that Montana should have so few mentions.

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