Brookfield East, Central Make Newsweek's Top High Schools List

Brookfield East and Central have ranked in Newsweek's list of America's Best High Schools. 

In the national ranking of 2,000 high schools, Brookfield East ranked 230 and Brookfield Central ranked 504. 

All the data analyzed was self-reported by each school for the 2011–12 school year. Over 5,000 high schools were invited to participate in the survey this year, and nearly 2,500 responded. 

Newsweek and The Daily Beast have compiled this list for the past two years and each year the methodlogy is tweaked. 

This year the methodology weighed the percentages of four-year, on-time graduation rate (25 percent); 2011 graduates who were accepted to college (25 percent); AP/IB/AICE tests per student (25 percent); average SAT and/or ACT score (10 percent); average AP/IB/AICE exam score (10 percent); and students enrolled in at least one AP/IB/AICE course (5 percent).

According to the list:

• Brookfield East had a four-year graduation rate of 98 percent, 94 percent of students were college-bound, the average ACT score was 25.8 and the average AP score was 3.6. 

• Brookfield Central had a four-year graduation rate of 99 percent, 85 percent of students were college-bound, the average ACT score was 25.1 and the average AP score was 3.2. 

The state Department of Public Instruction has slightly different graduation rates from the report put together by Newsweek and The Daily Beast. 

Out of 55 Wisconsin schools on the list, Brookfield East ranked first and Brookfield Central ranked sixth.