While politicians debate whether the Keystone Exams should be part of students’ graduation requirements, the once-a-year tests are revealing which Philadelphia area high schools are producing the brightest kids, and a third of the five-county Philly top 50 hail from Montgomery County, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal report by Clara Lefton and Craig Ey.
Based on students’ Keystone Exam grades in algebra, biology and literature, No. 7 Lower Merion led the way with 49.8 percent of students placing in advanced algebra, 68 percent in biology and 23.8 percent in literature, totaling 141.6.
Other Montgomery County schools in the Philly top 50 were:
- No. 13 Wissahickon at 124.6,
- No. 14 Harriton at 123.2,
- No. 16 Spring-Ford at 121.9,
- No. 17 Lower Moreland at 119.4,
- No. 18 North Penn at 117.8,
- No. 20 Plymouth Whitemarsh at 116.5,
- No. 22 Methacton at 114.7,
- No. 27 Upper Dublin at 106.5,
- No. 30 Perkiomen Valley at 97.3,
- No. 31 Upper Merion at 96.9,
- No. 34 Hatboro-Horsham at 89.3,
- No. 37 Abington at 86.7,
- No. 41 Souderton at 80,
- No. 42 Cheltenham at 78.9
- No. 43 Springfield Township at 77.5.
See more details and compare the school results in the Philadelphia Business Journal here.
