Washington Post: Citrus is AGAIN among America’s Most Challenging High Schools 2015

Today we learned that all three of our high schools in Citrus County were again recognized by the Washington Post as “America’s Most Challenging High Schools”.

Of the 26,400 high schools in the US, about 2,300 are recognized. Rankings are based on the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests, and college level coursework given in a school year divided by the number of seniors who graduate in May. The schools that earn this challenge honor are among the top 9% of schools in the US.

The publisher of The Washington Post personally called Citrus County School District’s Director of Research and Accountability Patrick Simon to share with him the positive news of how Citrus continues to excel nationally. The publisher shared how Citrus continues to gain the attention Washington Post’s for continually being an outlier with student success with the challenges of being in a rural community with a high number of economically disadvantage households.

Lecanto High School is now ranked 574 out of 2,300 awarded schools, Citrus High Schools is 1,546, and Crystal River High School improved significantly to be awarded 1,572.

Follow this link to the website http://apps.washingtonpost.com/local/highschoolchallenge/

or to read more about America’s Most Challenging High School go to: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/how-americas-most-challenging-high-schools-works-the-selection-method/2015/04/14/cfdd9e44-e30a-11e4-905f-cc896d379a32_story.html

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