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Newsweek giveth. And Newsweek taketh away.
For less than 24 hours this week, Santa Fe High School was on the news magazine’s list of top 1,500 high schools in the country. And then it wasnt, reports the Santa Fe New Mexican.
As reporter John Sena writes, a mix-up by the national news weekly resulted in the school in the City Different getting credit for data gathered from another Santa Fe High School — one in Alachua, Fla., near Gainesville.
Here’s an excerpt from Sena’s story:
Schools with identical names proved to be a problem for the computer program that Newsweek used to sort masses of information.
State Secretary of Education Veronica García, who on Monday had issued a news release congratulating three New Mexico schools for making the list, issued a revised statement Tuesday noting the magazine’s error regarding Santa Fe and extending her congratulations to Moreno Valley High School and Hobbs High School.
The magazine’s rankings are based on the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or Cambridge tests administered to students at a particular school is divided by the number of graduating seniors, Sena writes.
The list includes schools with a minimum rating of 1.00, or one test for every graduating senior. The higher the ratio, the higher the ranking.
I feel for the teachers and students at Santa Fe High School. To bask in national accolades only to have that warm, fuzzy feeling of achievement turn to disappointment can’t be fun.
There’s always next year, guys.
