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Damian Cross, left, and Hohn Hrbac, from Fayetteville Manlius High School set up their car for the "Scrambler" competition at F-M High School during a Science Olympiad competition in December 2013. Dick Blume | dblume@syracuse.com
Fayetteville-Manlius High School has been named one of the best high schools in the nation in the recent U.S. News & World Report rankings, the only school in Central New York to make the top 500. The list is compiled annually.
F-M High School earned a gold medal by ranking 472 nationally out of 31,242 U.S. public high schools. It ranked 51st out of 1,147 high schools in New York state.
The rankings are based on state assessments, and how well schools prepare students for college. It is designed to reflect how high schools perform in serving all their students; not just those who are college-bound.
The 2014 Best High Schools rankings are compiled by U.S. News And World Report along with with the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a behavioral and social science research organization.
F-M. with 1,577 students and 103 teachers, scored a 48 out of 100 for college readiness based on the percentage of students who took and passed Advanced Placement exams.
Along with that, a Best High School must:
Attain student performance levels that exceed statistical expectations given the school's relative level of student poverty, as measured by state accountability test scores for all students in reading and math.
The school also must achieve proficiency rates on state tests for their least advantaged student groups that exceed state averages.
Statewide, four CNY high schools made the top 100 in New York. F-M ranked 51st, Jamesville-DeWitt ranked 58, Fabius-Pompey 74th and Onondaga ranked 99th.