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Friday, May 17, 2013

Fair Lawn Makes 'America's Best High Schools' List for Fifth Straight Year

Fair Lawn High School dropped a couple hundred spots, but still ranked 876th nationally in Newsweek's 2013 list of "America's Best High Schools."

Fair Lawn High School is among the most effective high schools in the country at preparing students for college, according to Newsweek's annual list of "America's Best High Schools." Despite dropping a couple hundreds spots in each of the past two years, Fair Lawn remains among the top 1,000 schools in the nation. The high school ranked 876th nationally, 66th in New Jersey and 14th in Bergen County in Newsweek's 2013 list, released earlier this month. The magazine ranked Fair Lawn 649th in the country and 52nd in the state among public high schools in 2012, and 400th in the country and 33rd in the state in 2011. Superintendent Bruce Watson said he was pleased with the rankings, and wasn't sweating slipping a couple hundred spots on the …

Debby

12:57 pm on Saturday, May 18, 2013

Congratulations to all the hard working teachers, students and administrators! Keep up the good work! We are Fair Lawn PROUD!   more ›

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

FLHS Slips in Newsweek's Latest 'America's Best High Schools' Rankings

Fair Lawn High School ranked 649th nationally in Newsweek's 2012 list of "America's Best High Schools."

Fair Lawn High School made Newsweek's annual list of "America's Best High Schools," again this year, but it wasn't rated quite as highly this time around. Newsweek's list, released Monday, ranks Fair Lawn 649th in the country and 52nd in the state, among public high schools. That's a dropoff from last year, when Newsweek ranked Fair Lawn 400th in the nation and 33rd in New Jersey. Superintendent Bruce Watson said part of Fair Lawn's decline in rank is due to Newsweek including more charter and magnet school in its rankings this year. "It kind of skews things," he said. "It's like our Bergen Academies. It's not really a public school....because it's not really open to all kids." Bergen County Academies ranked 21st in the nation in this year…

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Bruce Knuckle

4:57 pm on Wednesday, May 23, 2012

We should move all of them to special education programs.   more ›

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