High School Makes the Grade in Magazine Poll

Boston - Boston magazine named Concord-Carlisle High School the fifth best public high school in Massachusetts in their September 2010 issue.

Boston magazine crunched the numbers in an exclusive ranking of the best public schools and biggest values in the area. Rankings were based on data gathered from consulting school officials and websites, as well as the Massachusetts Department of Education.

Determining factors of the school rankings includes MCAS scores, SAT scores, per pupil spending, student to teacher ratio, graduation rate, percent of students who continue into college, as well as amount of sports teams and clubs.  George Recck, director of the Math Resource Center at Babson College, calculated mean scores for each data category and then ranked schools based on their distance from the average.

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