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Home > Leadership > Mayor > Archive Press Releases > 2006 Archives > May 2006 > MAYOR BROWN PRAISES CITY HONORS' NATIONAL RANKING ON NEWSWEEK'S "AMERICA'S

MAYOR BROWN PRAISES CITY HONORS' NATIONAL RANKING ON NEWSWEEK'S "AMERICA'S BEST HIGH SCHOOLS" LIST


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Mayor Issues Proclamation Declaring "City Honors Day" in Buffalo

BUFFALO — Mayor Byron W. Brown today joined an energized celebration of students, faculty, administrators, Board of Education members and Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent Dr. James Williams following Buffalo's City Honors School's top ranking on Newsweek magazine's 2006 list of "America's Best High Schools."  City Honors was ranked first among high schools in the Northeast and fourth among the 1,000 schools in the overall national survey.

"This is great news for City Honors and for the entire Buffalo Public School system," said Mayor Brown.  "Everyone at City Honors – students, faculty and administrators – should be very proud of this achievement.  It is recognition of the vigorous academic curriculum that has worked so successfully for City Honors students and it is a testament to the idea that students in the city's public school system can and do achieve great academic honors."

Mayor Brown's proclamation read:

WHEREAS, 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; and 

WHEREAS, 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; and 

WHEREAS, 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; and

WHEREAS, 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; and 

WHEREAS, Nationally, just 30 percent of high school students are exposed to AP courses, and a fraction of that take IB classes. At City Honors, AP courses are mandatory for all 450 students at various points of their high school education, and 30 percent graduate with IB diplomas; and 

THEREFORE, I, Byron W. Brown, Mayor of the City of Buffalo, New York, do hereby proclaim Monday, May 1, 2006; as:

CITY HONORS' DAY
in the City of Buffalo, New York.

"As Mayor, but even more importantly as a City Honors parent, this national recognition of City Honors provides yet another reason to promote the good things that are happening in Buffalo," said Mayor Brown.  "I look forward to further success among our city's public school students."