LOCAL SCHOOL RANKS HIGH!

NEWSWEEK’s May 21, 2008 “TOP OF THE CLASS” article showed Atlantic Community (Delray Beach) is ranked #58 in the top 1000 of 1400+ public high schools in the US. Public schools are ranked according a ratio devised by Washington Post Education Reporter Jay Matthews: the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2007 divided by the number of graduating seniors. All of the schools on the list have an index of at least 1.000; they are in the top 5 percent of public schools measured this way.