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Eastern Sierra Academy hits Newsweek top 200 for 7th year |
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Friday, 12 June 2009 |
The Eastern Sierra Academy in Bridgeport has been ranked 132 out of 1,500 public high schools across the United States by Newsweek.
The academy has received the accolade every year since 2003, according to Roger Yost, principal since the school was founded fourteen years ago.
But the recent annual Newsweek review is not the important thing, Yost said in a phone interview.
“To me, the most important thing is if our kids are successful in college. And by taking AP [Advanced Preparation] classes, it provides the rigor to prepare,” he said. “We’re a college preparatory program. So by junior year, they’re taking AP classes.”
The Newsweek ranking is based the number of kids taking AP classes divided by the number of seniors. It’s the abundance of writing and reading that’s required to be successful in an AP class that really makes the difference, Yost said. – CB
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 17 June 2009 )
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