CY CREEK INCLUDED AMONG MOST CHALLENGING HIGH SCHOOLS

For the second consecutive year, both Cypress Woods and Cypress Creek high schools were ranked among the top 2,300 most-challenging U.S. high schools, according to theWashington Post annual Challenge Index.

The Challenge Index, assembled by Post education columnist Jay Mathews, is determined by dividing the number of Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB) and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests taken by all students at a school in 2014 by the number of graduating seniors that year. Schools on the list have an index of at least 1.000, meaning they are in the top 10 percent of approximately 22,000 public high schools measured in the same way.

The Index includes a subsidized lunch percentage that determines the percentage of students receiving federally subsidized meals and an equity and excellence percentage that shows the portion of all graduating seniors that had at least one passing grade in one AP or IB test.

Cypress Creek and Cypress Woods were among 169 Texas schools featured in the Challenge Index, and the only two CFISD representatives for the second straight year.

Cypress Woods ranked at 1,021 with an index of 2.349, earning an equity and excellence percentage of 34.9 and a subsidized lunch percentage of 19.

Cypress Creek ranked at 2,056 with an index of 1.272, an equity and excellence percentage of 22.3 and a subsidized lunch percentage of 45.

Visit the Washington Post Education blog for a full list of Challenge Index rankings.