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Fairfax Station Area High Schools Make Top Lists
South County Secondary School is No. 59 and Robinson Secondary School is No. 33 in the Washington Post's Challenge Index
How do Fairfax Station area high schools measure up?
South County Secondary School is No. 59 and Robinson Secondary School is No. 33 in this year's Challenge Index, the annual list of area local schools organized by education reporter Jay Mathews of The Washington Post.
Since 1998, Mathews has ranked Washington-area public high schools using the Challenge Index, his measure of how effectively a school prepares its students for college.
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The formula: Divide the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or other college-level tests a school gave in 2010 by the number of graduating seniors. The index is not a measure of the overall quality of the school, but the rating can reveal the level of preparing average students for college.
A portion of the index also measures the schools nationally. This year, all eligible Fairfax County high schools made the list of more than 1,900 top U.S. high schools.
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Robinson Secondary School ranked 220 and South County Secondary School ranked at 473.
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