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Parkway high schools named top schools in Newsweek's ‘STEM Best High School’ survey
11/13/2019 -- Newsweek announced its ranking of the top 5,000 STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) high schools, honoring excellence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. All four of Parkway’s high schools – Central, North, South and West – ranked in Newsweek's Top 5,000 STEM High Schools.
Parkway high schools ranked as follows -- Central High: 969; North High: 2879; South High:1240; West High:1038.
Newsweek partnered with STEM.org to rank America’s Best STEM High Schools. The list includes schools in every region of the country that offer skilled teachers who keep up with developments in these fields and who create dynamic learning environments to engage their students. The top 5,000 schools were curated from STEM.org Educational Research™ (SER) using a proprietary scoring logic that took into consideration a broad set of quantitative and qualitative data inputs collected from Q2 2015–Q3 2019.
The purpose was to determine which primary/secondary institutions in America best offer students experiences in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)—as defined by the Congressional Research Service—while preparing them for post‐secondary outcomes. Additional factors, including affluence and median household income, were taken into consideration in compiling the rankings.
“Children don’t realize it, but they’re natural STEM students,” says Nancy Cooper, Newsweek Global Editor in Chief. “We need to make sure that innate drive, curiosity, and creativity aren’t lost along the way. These high schools are helping to ensure America’s future in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics is in good hands.”
View the Newsweek STEM ranking results here.