NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 9, 2009) – Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School and Martin Luther King, Jr. Magnet High School have been named to Newsweek Magazine’s Top 30 U.S. High Schools, ranking respectively at 28 and 29.
“This is a tremendous honor,” said MLK Principal Dr. Schunn Turner. “We have an incredible student body and faculty. Not one, but four years in a row they have been recognized for their hard work, and I could not be prouder.”
This is the fourth consecutive year Hume-Fogg and MLK have been recognized by Newsweek’s annual report that evaluates and ranks the nation’s top 1,300 high schools. In addition to HFA and MLK, Hillsboro High also gained recognition for the fourth consecutive year, ranking 677. MNPS was the only district in Tennessee to have schools named to the Top 100.
According to Newsweek, the ratings were developed by Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews and are based on the number of Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB) or Cambridge tests taken by all students in a particular school, divided by the number of graduating seniors at that school. All schools on the list are in the top 5% of public schools measured.
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