This is cool. For the second straight year, Newsweek magazine has named Hanford High School one of the top 1,500 high schools in the U.S. The Falcons are ranked #1435 this year — congrats!

Here’s how Newsweek describes the ranking system:

Public schools are ranked according to a ratio devised by Jay Mathews: the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2008 divided by the number of graduating seniors. All of the schools on the list have an index of at least 1.000; they are in the top 6 percent of public schools measured this way.

[where: Hanford High School, 450 Hanford St. Richland , WA 99354]

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