The two campuses that serve Diamond Bar students made a list of the most challenging public high schools in the country.
Both Diamond Bar and Diamond Ranch high schools made the Washington Post's recently released annual rankings of the most academically rigorous in the country.
In California, Diamond Bar High ranked No. 45, according to the list of of schools. The Walnut Valley Unified School District campus fell seven spots from 38 last year.
Pomona Unified School District's Diamond Ranch High ranked No. 150, down 46 spots from 2012's ranking of 104th in the state.
Walnut High School was not listed.
Troy High School in Fullerton, which draws students from Diamond Bar and Walnut ranked No. 13 and Rowland High in the neighboring Rowland Unified School District ranked No. 113.
These rankings come around the same time that both Diamond Bar and Diamond Ranch were named to a U.S. News & World Report list of the best schools.
Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews has rated public high schools around the country for the past 15 years based on something called the “Challenge Index,” according to the release. The index takes the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at the school that year and divides it by the number of seniors who graduated in May or June.
“With a few exceptions, public schools that achieved a ratio of at least 1.000, meaning they had as many tests in 2012 as they had graduates, were put on the national list at washingtonpost.com/highschoolchallenge,” Mathews explains in a Washington Post story. Before posting the list, he also filters out magnet or charter high schools that have few average-performing students.
This year, only 9 percent of the approximately 22,000 U.S. public high schools were included on the list, according to Mathews.
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