Peekskill High School Rated in Top 1,000 High Schools in the U.S. by Newsweek Magazine
Each year, Newsweek picks the best high schools in the country based on how hard school staffs work to challenge students with advanced placement college-level courses and tests. Just over 1600 schools—only six percent of the 26,000 public high schools in the U.S.—made the list. Based on the Newsweek formula, Peekskill High School is rated #719 in the nation.
Newsweek calculates the school’s ranking by taking the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or Cambridge (AICE) tests given at a school each year and divides by the number of seniors graduating in May or June. All public schools that achieved a ratio of at least 1.000, meaning they had as many tests in 2009 as they had graduates, were put on the list on the NEWSWEEK website. Each list is based on the previous year's data, so the 2010 list has each school's numbers for 2009.
According to Principal Vincent Burruano, “We, at Peekskill High School, provide our students with many different opportunities for intellectual growth. We encourage our students to take the more challenging and rigorous courses such as AP and college level courses as preparation for college and life beyond high school. We are proud that so many of our students have responded by enrolling in these courses, and we will continue to inspire our students to aspire!”