Schools
OPHS Ranks No. 45 on WaPo Challenge Index
OP is the only Prince William County school to make Washington, D.C.-area top 50 list.
The Washington Post published on Sunday, May 20. Osbourn Park High School was the only Prince William County area high school to rank in the Washington, D.C. top 50 list, as compiled by Post’s Jay Mathews.
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Locally, Manassas-based Prince William County high school Osbourn Park was ranked 45 out of 50 in the top 50 ranking for D.C.-area schools.
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The report separately ranks D.C.-area schools, a national top nine percent and state rankings. “The schools that lead the new national list are small magnets and charters that focus on college-level courses and tests,” wrote Mathews in the Post article Sunday.
Nationally, a Tuscon, AZ, school took top billing in the challenge index. No Virginia schools were in the national list.
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Mathews’ ranking kept Annandale’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology off of the list due to the lack of “average” students. The challenge ranking is a formula based off of advanced placement, International Baccalaureate, Cambridge (AICE) exams and divided by the number of graduating seniors.
"All Prince William County high schools are among the nation’s top high schools that encourage students to take rigorous college-level courses," said a release from Prince William County Schools. "All 10 Prince William County high schools have a rating of 1.000 or above."
Private schools were included in the challenge index for the first time.
Washington, D.C. Ranking
School
Index rating
2012 rank
2011 rank
National Rank
3.174
45
44
329
2.460
69
64
603
2.080
91
81
859
Forest Park High
2.331
75
96
670
1.261
139
108
1,624
2.298
77
55
694
1.324
134
135
1,563
0.636
172
Unavailable
Unavailable
2.053
92
97
882
Virginia Ranking
School
2012
2011
Osbourn Park
26
27
Woodbridge Senior High
41
43
Gar-Field Senior High
54
50
Forest Park High
46
61
Manassas Park High
84
76
Hylton High
48
36
Freedom High
79
96
Stonewall Jackson High
55
62
*Osbourn HS was not on the Virginia ranking.
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