Lakeridge High goes unranked in national top schools list because test scores were too high | OregonLive.com:
by Victoria Edwards, The Oregonian
First Lake Oswego schools officials struggled to understand
why Lakeridge High School wasn't ranked in U.S. News and World Report's annual list of the country's top high schools. Now they're struggling to explain the answer: Students scored too well on state tests.
"We've been doing the best we can to explain what happened here, but it takes a little work to understand," said school district spokeswoman Nancy Duin.
Almost immediately after U.S. News
released its report last week, district officials began looking into why Lakeridge wasn't ranked, since for the past three years the school has been rated a silver medal school in the list.
Even more confusing was the fact that Lakeridge students' state test scores were not only some of the best ever for the school but were higher than scores from rival Lake Oswego High, which was listed.
Lake Oswego High was one of three Oregon schools
to earn the gold standing in this year's list, meaning it was ranked in the top 500 schools in the country.
U.S. News
requires a school to get its students, including low-income and minority students, to score above the state average on state reading and math tests. It then
