Ranking Evansville Area Schools

Newsweek came out with its rankings of the of “the top public high schools in the country,” and Evansville has a single school in the top 100: The Signature School. The Sig School came in at 255, which is the highest ranking of any school in the state.

Newsweek ranks these scores based on the number of advanced placement tests to the number of graduating seniors. Sadly, our fair state didn’t do so well in the rankings only having 3 Indiana schools listed, and none of them being from the Southern Indiana region.

If you’ve been keeping score at home, you might remember that in last year’s rankings, the Sig School was #54 in the nation. Sadly, they plummeted 200 spots because not as many kids took the AP tests this year. Ranking solely on AP Tests is a point of contention with some schools in fact. Out in San Francisco, the entire Palo Alto school district refused to participate in the study saying that there was already too much emphasis on test scores at the expense of actual learning. You go Palo Alto!