Stoneham High School Doesn't Crack Top 50 Boston Magazine Schools

Boston Magazine recently compiled its list of 222 Boston-area public and charter high schools and also narrowed down the top 50 schools in the area based on a variety of statistics, and found itself in the middle of the pack in a variety of categories.

The school didn't find its way onto the Top 50 list in the magazine. Weston High School took top honors followed by Lexington High, Dover-Sherborn Regional High, Concord-Carlisle High and Wellesley Senior High.

Schools in the Stoneham region that made the list include Andover High School (No. 27), Reading Memorial High School (No. 38) and Burlington High School at No. 43.

According to the sortable list in the article, Stoneham was in the middle of the pack in categories such as percent of graduation, percent to college, MCAS scores and SAT scores.

The school features a 89.6 percent graduation rate and a 91 percent rate of students going on to college.

Stoneham's 10th grade English, math and science MCAS scores were 93, 81, and 79, respectively, which was also average in the group of 222 schools.

Boston Magazine also took into account SAT scores. In reading, Stoneham averaged a 500 while the top school came in at 622. In writing, Stoneham students averaged a 502 compared to a top score of 627, while in science local students scored a mean of 513 compared to the top score of 649.

So what's your take on the numbers? Do you think they accurately portray Stoneham's educational efforts, or are they misleading? Let us know in the comments section below.