San Diego Magazine’s July 2006 issue listed the top 8 high schools in San Diego. ALL FOUR POWAY SCHOOLS ARE ON THE LIST. Poway High School was noted by the magazine for the many teachers with Master’s degrees. I did not read the article, so I don’t know all the criteria that were used.
Two of the 3 high schools in the San Dieguito Union School District, which serves students in Solana Beach, Del Mar, and Encinitas, made the list; La Costa Canyon High, the 3rd school in that district, did not.
“800 Club”
Top High Schools
Coronado CORONADO
La Jolla LA JOLLA
Mt. Carmel POWAY
Poway High POWAY
Rancho Bernardo POWAY
San Dieguito ENCINITAS, San Dieguito Union Schools
Torrey Pines CARMEL VALLEY, San Dieguito Union
Westview POWAY
Asianautica, the reason Preuss has high API, is because it is made of parents who value education, because only the parents who took the time to investigate about this school, participate in the competitive entry process, and drive to it, are there. It is the parent’s emphasis on education that determined the school’s API, and as we discussed in another thread, poverty and lower socioeconomic standing and cultural factors make education less important to some groups. So Preuss is an example of selective bias. If you can go in to the lowest-ranked San Diego school, convert it to a Preuss style school, then let’s see if the API score is as high as the score of the “optional” Preuss. Then we can truly see if the difference is the parents or the teachers.
