{"id":9517,"date":"2012-06-27T13:13:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T17:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=9517"},"modified":"2012-06-27T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T02:35:09","slug":"ten-florida-high-schools-prepare-students-for-college-better-than-most-in-the-country-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/06\/27\/ten-florida-high-schools-prepare-students-for-college-better-than-most-in-the-country-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Florida High Schools Prepare Students for College Better Than Most in the Country, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9529\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/06\/27\/ten-florida-high-schools-prepare-students-for-college-better-than-most-in-the-country-report-says\/grad-caps-flickr-by-werwin15\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9529\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9529\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/06\/grad-caps-FLICKR-by-Werwin15--300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/06\/grad-caps-FLICKR-by-Werwin15--300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/06\/grad-caps-FLICKR-by-Werwin15-.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Werwin15 \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanton College Preparatory School in Duval County ranked 8th in the country for effectively preparing students for college. Suncoast Community School in Palm Beach County ranked 9th.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More high schools in the Miami-Dade school district prepare students for college than any other district in the state.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to a Newsweek report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/features\/2012\/americas-best-high-schools.html\">America&#8217;s Best High Schools 2012<\/a>,\u00a0which lists the 1,000 best public high schools.<\/p>\n<p>But Duval and Palm Beach counties have two of the top 10 schools in the country for college readiness.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Florida high schools made the top 100.<\/p>\n<p>California, Texas, New Jersey and New York are the only states with more high schools in the top 1,000.<\/p>\n<p>The report card measured 6 criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Graduation rate<\/li>\n<li>College matriculation rate<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>Advance Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB), and Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) taken per student<\/li>\n<li>Average SAT\/ACT scores<\/li>\n<li>Average AP, IB, AICE scores<\/li>\n<li>AP courses offered per student.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThis is an incredible honor and I congratulate Florida\u2019s students, teachers, principals, superintendents and school boards for this great achievement,\u201d said Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida\u2019s public education system is one of the best in the nation, and this report card bears that out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Florida High Schools in the Top 100:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>8. Stanton College Preparatory School (Duval)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>9. Suncoast Community School (Palm Beach)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>12. School For Advanced Studies (Miami-Dade)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>15. Pine View School (Sarasota)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>23. The Paxon School for Advanced Studies (Duval)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>37. Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts (Palm Beach)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>52. Lincoln Park Academy (St. Lucie)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>58. MAST Academy (Miami-Dade)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>65. West Shore Junior\/Senior High School (Brevard)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>69. Coral Reef Senior High School (Miami-Dade)<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More high schools in the Miami-Dade school district prepare students for college than any other district in the state. That&#8217;s according to a Newsweek report, America&#8217;s Best High Schools 2012,\u00a0which lists the 1,000 best public high schools. But Duval and Palm Beach counties have two of the top 10 schools in the country for college [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1012,1033,530],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9578,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions\/9578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}