HHS makes Daily Beast top schools list

Homewood High School was named in The Daily Beast’s Top High Schools list for 2014. More than 700 schools made the final list for providing an academically rigorous program that prepares them for college.

“These are schools that serve their students well, but are also undoubtedly well-served by their students’ socioeconomic status, parental involvement, and prior school experiences,” The Daily Beast’s website stated. 

The Daily Beast based its methodology on available statistics from the Department of Education and school surveys.  To come up with the initial pool, they consulted the 2012-2013 data from the Department of Education and contacted public schools with above-average graduation rates of at least 85 percent. They compared schools by graduation and college acceptance rates, as well as their academic rigor using AP, IB, and AICE classes and test scores, as well as college admission exams, another indicator of a school’s preparation.