Whiting High School: America's Best High School Bronze Medalist
Whiting Among Top 8% of Schools in the Nation
August 16, 2010
The Whiting High School has received its fourth consecutive bronze medal from U.S. News and World Report. Whiting is the only school in Monona County to receive this designation since it began in 2007.
U.S. News and World Report analyzed 21,786 public high schools in 50 states plus the District of Columbia. In all, 1,750 schools received a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Medal. That places Whiting High School among the top 8% of schools in the nation.
The 2010 U.S. News & World Report Americas Best High Schools has named America’s Best High Schools for four years based on a methodology developed by School Evaluation Services, a K-12 education data research business run by Standard & Poor's. Based on the key principles that a great high school must serve all its students well, not just those who are collegebound, and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show the school is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators.
A three-step process determined the best high schools. The first two steps ensured that the schools serve all their students well, using state proficiency standards as the benchmarks. For those schools that made it past the first two steps, a third step assessed the degree to which schools prepare students for college-level work.
