City Honors receives a top honor
Newsweek ranks school fourth in the nation
By SHARON LINSTEDT -- 5/1/2006

The rigorous college preparatory curriculum at Buffalo's City Honors School has landed it at the head of the class in a Newsweek magazine ranking of the country's top high schools.

Newsweek's 2006 list of "America's Best High Schools" ranks City Honors No. 4 on its list of the nation's 1,000 top schools. The high school rankings are the cover story of the publication's current issue.

At the heart of the magazine's ratings is how well U.S. high schools prepare students for college. The schools were sized up using a formula devised by Newsweek to measure student participation in Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses - curriculum that introduces students to a college-level learning experience.

City Honors outscored all other high schools in New York State and is ranked far ahead of any other Western New York high school. Youngstown's Lewiston-Porter High School, at No. 280, was the second-highest-rated local school on the list. Clarence was third among Western New York schools at No. 418.
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