KENTUCKY ACADEMY TOPS THE CHART

摘要

To call the Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science a high school, you'd have to suspend an element of reality. You'll find no football games, pep rallies, or dismissal bells on the verdant Bowling Green, Ky., campus. Instead you'll find couches for study halls and white boards scribbled with advanced math equations. Last week, one student walked through campus sporting a T-shirt proclaiming, "Extreme science: What a rush."Welcome to Gatton, America's best high school, according to Newsweek's 2012 rankings of the best 1,000 schools. On every metric-test scores, graduation rates, and college-matriculation rates-Gatton sets the nation's curve.