Plainwell High School has been selected as one of the Washington Post America’s Most Challenging High Schools for 2016.
This year, the school is ranked 41st in the state of Michigan and 2,164nd in the nation. This is the second time the Washington Post has included Plainwell High School in their national ranking. The first time was in 2014.
The Washington Post ranks high schools by taking the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Cambridge tests given each year and divides that by the number of graduating seniors. Schools that had as many tests in 2015 as they had graduates, were placed on the national list. The newspaper then ranks the schools in order of ratio.
Plainwell Superintendent Sue Wakefield said that it’s the students who we should acknowledge in this achievement,
“One of our most basic goals at Plainwell is to help our kids believe in themselves, in their ability to succeed and to challenge themselves to work hard,” Wakefield said. “This recognition affirms that what we are trying to instill in our kids is actually taking hold.
“I am so proud of the efforts they put forth.”
In 2015, U.S. News and World Report ranked Plainwell High School as one of the Best High Schools in the country and in 2013 and 2014 the Daily Beast/Newsweek Magazine also selected Plainwell as one of the Top High Schools in America.
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