Newsweek's 2008 Challenge Index is out

The Post & Newsweek's education columnist Jay Mathews has released the 2008 Challenge Index, listing the top 100 public high schools as determined by "the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or Cambridge tests given at a school in May, and divide by the number of seniors graduating in May or June." DC has one school in the top 100 schools: Bell Multicultural coming in at number 76. Last year DC also place a school in the top 100 --Banneker-- which place 91st.

The table below shows how all of the District schools who have been listed on the index have done of the last 4 years. A promising trend is more and more DC schools are making the list each year, and they're mostly trending upwards in their ranking.

School	2008	2007	2006	2005
Banneker	149	91	210	46
Bell Multicultural	76	333	#N/A	#N/A
Cardozo	1156	1318	#N/A	#N/A
Coolidge	1319	#N/A	#N/A	#N/A
Duke Ellington School of the Arts	1126	#N/A	#N/A	#N/A
Friendship Collegiate	1185	#N/A	#N/A	#N/A
Hyde Public Charter	695	#N/A	#N/A	#N/A
McKinley Tech	975	#N/A	#N/A	#N/A
School Without Walls	887	751	1086	#N/A
SEED Public Charter	565	728	#N/A	#N/A
Thurgood Marshall Academy	1176	#N/A	#N/A	#N/A
Washington Math & Science Tech	#N/A	#N/A	1051	594
Woodrow Wilson	129	359	187	316