KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Kalamazoo Central and Loy Norrix High Schools have ranked at the top of a state magazine’s top academic list.
Bridge Magazine has put Loy Norrix at number one and Kalamazoo Central at #4 on a list of their 2017 Academic State Champs, in a ranking comparing schools from other urban poor districts in the state.
They were looking for the high schools that are best preparing their students for life after graduation. They broke the schools down by the income level of their communities and they ranked A-C-T test scores, college admittance rates and college performance.
Supt. Michael Rice says they won in part because they did factor in poverty as a factor that should be included in the ranking of every school.
Rice says if the state ranked and funded schools based in part on their level of poverty, as the most successful states do, he thinks scores in Michigan would go way up too.
