This came up in my newsfeed today and I had to chuckle. It's the top 500 high schools according to newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/high-schools/americas-top-high-schools-2015
I went to a high school that had three high schools on one campus and acted like a single high school. Students were randomly assigned a "home" school and you took classes in all three high schools, had the same access to clubs and resources, etc. Yet, one of the high schools was ranked in the 300s, one in the 400s, and one didn't make the list. There is NO difference between the schools other than what is statistically "allowed" due to randomly placing students in their "home" schools. And yet, the rankings are pretty different.
I just thought it was interesting. As someone who thinks rankings are a bunch of crap anyway, I was amused.
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