Lynchburg City Schools is pleased to announce that both E. C. Glass and Heritage high schools were included in the recent ranking of the Washington Post’s most challenging high schools. E.C. Glass placed 874 and Heritage placed 1,292 out of the 1,930 schools recognized nationwide.
Eligibility for this honor is based on the number of college-level tests, such as Advanced Placement tests, given in the school each year divided by the number of graduates for that year. Other pieces of data noted in the listing are the percentage of students who come from families that qualify for lunch subsidies and the percentage of graduates who passed at least one AP test during their high school career.
E. C. Glass had an index of 2.106 and Heritage had an index of 1.635. Jefferson Forest High School is the only other surrounding school to make the list.
According to the Washington Post’s high school challenge, only 9 percent of the approximately 22,000 U.S. public high schools managed to reach the standard of at least a 1.0 index and be placed on the list. The rating is intended to reveal the level of a high school’s commitment to preparing average students for college.
Lynchburg City Schools continues to provide the most AP courses in the area.