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 ›