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Belmont High Named One Of Boston's Best

Boston Magazine joins national publications in ranking education at HS tops.

Is there a better way to begin the year than being named the best in what you do?

Boston magazine joins such national publications as US News & World Report, Forbes magazine and the Wall Street Journal by naming Belmont High School one of the top public high schools 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.

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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. 

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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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