{"id":23199,"date":"2013-05-10T19:42:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T23:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=23199"},"modified":"2013-05-10T19:44:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T23:44:57","slug":"newsweek-magazine-declares-riverdale-high-school-as-being-among-americas-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/05\/newsweek-magazine-declares-riverdale-high-school-as-being-among-americas-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek Magazine Declares <br>Riverdale High School As Being Among America\u2019s Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-high-schools\/florida\/districts\/lee-county-school-district\/riverdale-high-school-5160\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23200\" title=\"raiderlogoG\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/raiderlogoG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"159\" \/>Newsweek magazine<\/a> recently released their list of America\u2019s Best High Schools for 2013, giving a Lee County high school cause for celebration. <strong>Riverdale High School\u00a0<\/strong>made the cut for this impressive list.\u00a0 To determine a school\u2019s rank and inclusion on the list, Newsweek evaluated schools based on six components:\u00a0graduation rate,\u00a0college acceptance rate,\u00a0\u00a0the number of\u00a0AP\/IB\/AICE tests taken per student, average SAT\/ACT scores,\u00a0average AP\/IB\/AICE scores,\u00a0and percent of students enrolled in at least one AP\/IB\/AICE course.\u00a0\u00a0Out of just 2,000 schools included nationwide, Riverdale High School is ranked number 1969. <!--more-->Riverdale High School Principal <strong>Jerry Demming\u00a0<\/strong>was elated about his school\u2019s accomplishment. He shared, \u201cThe faculty and staff at Riverdale High School are extremely proud of this honor.\u00a0 Our motto is \u2018Success is a Choice\u2019 and receiving this honor shows that the students, faculty and staff are choosing to be successful. This honor motivates us to achieve an even higher level of success. \u00a0\u2018It is a Great Time to be Raider!!\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Congratulations to the students and staff of both schools for being recognized on this elite national list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek magazine recently released their list of America\u2019s Best High Schools for 2013, giving a Lee County high school cause for celebration. Riverdale High School\u00a0made the cut for this impressive&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}