The main entrance at Oak Ridge High School is pictured above. (Photo courtesy Oak Ridge Schools)
Oak Ridge High School was ranked number 11 on a list of the most challenging high schools in Tennessee, according to a ranking published by The Washington Post.
Other East Tennessee high schools on the list are West High School in Knoxville (#6), Farragut High School in Knoxville (#7), Morristown West in Morristown (#10), and Dobyns-Bennett High School in Kingsport (#12).
The top five high schools are all in the Nashville area:Â Hume-Fogg Magnet in Nashville (#1), Martin Luther King Magnet in Nashville (#2), Brentwood in Brentwood (#3), Hillsboro in Nashville (#4), and Ravenwood in Brentwood (#5).
The Washington Post said it ranked schools through an index formula that’s a simple ratio: the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year divided by the number of seniors who graduated that year. A ratio of 1.000 means the school had as many tests as graduates.
Oak Ridge High School’s index is 2.250.
The rankings list also includes information on the percentage of students who come from families that qualify for lunch subsidies and the percentage of graduates who passed at least one college-level test during their high school career.
See The Washington Post rankings here. See the Tennessee rankings here.
Learn more about the list here.
Sam Hopwood says
I can remember when OR ranked in the top 100 schools in the nation. Ah, memories….. On the other hand, it is good to see that so many other schools in Tennessee are providing very good education to many students. Keep at it!