Redondo Union High School has been ranked amongst the best high schools in the country.
According to the U.S. News & World Report rankings, compiled by the news service and the Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes for Research, Redondo’s only high school is 756th in the nation and 146th in the state in terms of its attention to student needs and student performance.
It was one of 1,790 high schools awarded a silver medal ranking from a pool of 18,196 schools.
The survey methodology was based on the key principles that “a great high school must serve all of its students well, not just those who are college-bound, and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show the school is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators,” according to usnews.com.
Markers included whether the school’s students were performing better than statistically expected for the average student in the state (and, in particular, whether economically disadvantaged students, who tend to score lower, were performing better than statistically expected). The rankings took into account the test scores of the least-advantaged student groups (black, Hispanic, and low-income) and used Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate test scores as indicators of college readiness.
Nineteen percent of Redondo’s student population is economically disadvantaged. The Advanced Placement course enrollment is 43 percent.
