Woodbridge High School Makes NJ Monthly's Top 20 Most Improved Schools List
The high school that is under investigation by the state for cheating on standardized tests just made the list of NJ schools that have shown the most improvement - in areas such as standardized test scores.
One of Woodbridge Township's three high schools under investigation for allegations of cheating on standarized tests was just listed as one of the state's '20 most improved high schools' on a NJ Monthly report ranking secondary schools. In 2010, Woodbridge High School came in 229th out of New Jersey's 328 public high schools, according to the magazine's rankings. This year, Woodbridge High jumped 59 points to achieve a ranking of 170th among the state's public high schools. NJ Monthly took special note of Woodbridge as one of the "Top 20 Most Improved High Schools" for 2012. For the first time, Woodbridge beat one of the two other high schools in the township in the magazine's ranking of secondary institutions by the dramatic 59-point …
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David
9:27 pm on Wednesday, August 29, 2012
rtmtech, I live in Woodbridge Township, and I think that the lack of concern about the cheating scandal stems from parents' dislike of these standardized tests. A lot of people view these tests as complete BS. No Child Left Behind requires that a school's average test scores improve each year, or else severe sanctions are levied against the school. However, the reality is that there is a limit to… more ›