Challenge Indexes for Frederick, Md.

Average Index: 1.556
Average Equity and Excellence %:: 34.58
Average Subsidized Lunches %:: 12.67

Rank School City State Index Equity and Excellence % Subsidized Lunches %
56 Middletown** Middletown Md. 2.133 46.00 5.00
71 Linganore** Frederick Md. 1.842 39.10 5.00
83 Urbana** Ijamsville Md. 1.645 43.00 4.00
88 Frederick** Frederick Md. 1.572 34.40 28.00
90 Gov. Thomas Johnson** Frederick Md. 1.556 28.80 19.00
100 Brunswick** Brunswick Md. 1.454 28.60 14.00
103 Walkersville** Walkersville Md. 1.431 33.40 12.00
118 Catoctin** Thurmont Md. 1.303 26.80 13.00
128 Tuscarora** Frederick Md. 1.069 31.10 14.00

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**Includes Cambridge, community college or other types of college-level final exams.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, with a rating of 7.486 and an Equity and Excellence rate of 100 percent, was not ranked because it is a magnet school with a selective admissions policy and an average SAT reading and math score, 1456, higher than the highest average for any regular enrollment school in the country. The index is designed to show which schools are challenging average students and does not work well with schools like Jefferson that have few or no average students.

Briar Woods and Freedom in Loudoun County, Battlefield and Freedom in Prince William County, Skyline in Warren County, Clarksburg and Northwood in Montgomery County, Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. in Prince George’s County, Marriotts Ridge in Howard County and North Point in Charles County were not included because they are new schools and did not have full senior classes graduating this year.

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