Hot off the press: Ridgewood High School has been ranked #7 in the state by New Jersey monthly magazine. I know some of you have heard me say that the magazine rankings -- designed by editors and not educators -- are not anything to get too excited about, and I really do give them very low priority when actually judging school quality...HOWEVER, that said, I have to be honest and say I definitely smiled to see that we moved from #24 to #7 since the magazine's last ranking two years ago!
I have not seen the full article yet to read what their criteria were, I'll fill you in with more detail later.
One other interesting note: the #5 school on the list is Glen Ridge, from where our new superintendent Dan Fishbein just came. That's a good sign, don't you think?
OK, here's #1 through #10
1) Millburn (3)
2) McNair Academic (Jersey City) (1)
3) Tenafly (2)
4) Mountain Lakes (5)
5) Glen Ridge (10)
6) Princeton (13)
7) Ridgewood (24)
8) Northern Highlands Regional (Allendale) (7)
9) Northern Valley Regional (Demarest) (16)
10) Chatham (12)
(the number in parentheses is last year's ranking)
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Do you think Jack's brief tenure had anything to do with the up-tick?
Yes, I believe Jack had something to do with it, but I also think many other factors and individuals (faculty, staff, parents) contributed and still contribute on a daily basis to the quality of our high school. It is heartening that they, and we, can receive a little positive acknowledgement from the outside world.
It's interesting to see this upswing in our ranking, especially after the board of ed election when all we heard was how our schools were "failing." Some of us never believed that and now we have outside validation.
However, we do have a lot of issues and MATH is just one that I'm wondering what is going to be happening...I hope this does not mean the board of ed people will just sit back and think everything is fine.
3:27 PM,
Your comment, "all we heard was how our schools were "failing," is such a gross generalization.
No one ever said our schools were failing. What you heard was the BOE dragging its feet in the face of evidence brought to them by parents that TERC and constructivist math were failing our children.
There is a big difference between the two.
yeah for us! I like the methodology that NJ Monthly uses much more than that of the Newsweek rankings!
Actually 11:10 I distinctly remember Lois &/or Maskin &/or their website saying "the Ridgewood schools have failed." At the two HSA meetings which I attended they talked about the failing school system. They also said this to my friend when they went door to door. Besides Lois and Maskiin, the word "failing" with regard to our school has been used many many many times on the Ridgewood Blog. That's what I was talking about.
-- 3:27
-- 3:27,
And it is in many ways failing our children specially in the grade schools.
No one has even opened the can of worms that passes for English. Geography has totally disappeared and been replaced with PC nonsense like "multiculturalism." And Science, well lets say it is pretty weak around here.
Maskin and Lois where right, by those standards we are failing our children.
I know, I went to school here and graduated in 1976 for RHS. It is not as rigorous as before.
5:24 -- "by those standards we are failing"
by WHAT standards? If you're going to use the word standards then you must mean something other than your opinion, regardless of whether you're an RHS grad. What exactly is the standard of measurement, and what are our scores, that bring you to this conclusion of failure? It's not enough to simply say something is "pretty weak." Where are your facts?
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