From Newsweek Magazine's Challenge Index
Richard Montgomery High School, where Montgomery Square north
children matriculate, according to Newsweek Magazine and the Washington Post, is
the
best High School in
Maryland and the 37th best in the United States.
Public schools are ranked according to a ratio called the
Challenge Index:
the number of Advanced Placement or
International
Baccalaureate tests taken
by all students at a school in 2002 divided by
the
number of graduating
seniors. Schools that chose more than half of
their
students by grades or
test scores were not considered because the
index is
designed to identify
schools that challenge average students and does
not
work well with schools
that have few or no average students. The
schools
ranked in the list have the
strongest AP or IB programs in the country. Each
of
them is in the top four
percent of all American high schools measured
this
way. Winston Churchill, serving the southern half of Montgomery Square, also placed well in the list, at 74th nationally.
You can review the entire list at the following web
sites:
http://www.csh.k12.ny.us/highschool/data/TheTopHighSchools.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/kto12/challengeindex/