Monday, May 16, 2005
Top 1000 High Schools
Newsweek posted this list. A very simple metric - the number of AP and/or IB tests given divided by the number of graduating seniors. It's a bit of a pain to search the whole list. So I copied it all to an Excel spreadsheet. There are quite a few Austin high schools on the list. Good to remember that top 1000 is top 4% in the country. The asterisks on the school name indicate that they use IB tests. The Subsizdized Lunches Number is the percent of the student body eligible for free and reduced lunches.
So here are Austin's finest:
Newsweek posted this list. A very simple metric - the number of AP and/or IB tests given divided by the number of graduating seniors. It's a bit of a pain to search the whole list. So I copied it all to an Excel spreadsheet. There are quite a few Austin high schools on the list. Good to remember that top 1000 is top 4% in the country. The asterisks on the school name indicate that they use IB tests. The Subsizdized Lunches Number is the percent of the student body eligible for free and reduced lunches.
So here are Austin's finest:
| Rank | School | City | State | Score | Subsidized Lunches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | Westlake | Austin | TX | 3.035 | 1.8 |
| 76 | Westwood* | Austin | TX | 2.978 | 6.5 |
| 165 | Lyndon B. Johnson | Austin | TX | 2.442 | 41 |
| 204 | Lanier | Austin | TX | 2.263 | 76.6 |
| 298 | Anderson* | Austin | TX | 1.955 | 14 |
| 441 | Stephen F. Austin | Austin | TX | 1.675 | 25.1 |
| 521 | McNeil? | Austin | TX | 1.542 | 8.3 |
| 582 | James Bowie | Austin | TX | 1.46 | 6.9 |
| 678 | McCallum? | Austin | TX | 1.357 | 27.5 |
| 892 | Crockett | Austin | TX | 1.147 | 48 |
| 999 | Akins | Austin | TX | 1.044 | 51.5 |
| 577 | Lake Travis | Austin | TX | 1.463 | 7.8 |
Sunday, May 15, 2005
mozdev.org - platypus: "Platypus is a Firefox extension which lets you modify a Web page from your browser -- 'What You See Is What You Get' -- and then save those changes as a Greasemonkey script so that they'll be repeated the next time you visit the page. Editing pages to suit your needs is dandy -- but making those changes 'permanent' is the real payoff."
This is some amazing stuff that changes the way you do things. I already have greasemonkey and it rocks. I read the NY Times on the web, and there is a greasemonkey script that makes all articles use the single-page format. A small change, but it makes my life a small bit simpler. And then using firefox with adblock also changes things - much more relaxing.
I'm gonna go get this now.
This is some amazing stuff that changes the way you do things. I already have greasemonkey and it rocks. I read the NY Times on the web, and there is a greasemonkey script that makes all articles use the single-page format. A small change, but it makes my life a small bit simpler. And then using firefox with adblock also changes things - much more relaxing.
I'm gonna go get this now.
