I'm assuming the OP means quality of education
All of them are good. Community and Skyline give you a different type of learning option, but if you work hard, all of them will set you up for college. I graduated from Pioneer 5 years ago and it gave me everything I needed to do well at Michigan.
Could you elaborate on Community and Skyline offering different learning options?
I don't know too much about Skyline, but Community is an alternative school that offers a very different experience - it's much smaller, you call teachers by their first name, that kind of thing. It's very popular so there is a lottery to get in.
Skyline has magnet programs in that they focus classes to specific interests (Health and Medicine, Tech, Communications, Business). I don't know too much about them but here's a link: http://www.a2schools.org/Page/6863
Skyline is also simply the new HS for a large section of Ann Arbor, built to relieve crowding at Huron and Pioneer. It's far more like those two than it is Community, which is a place unto itself.
The bottom line is that you'll get an excellent education at any of the three main high schools here.
duh!
+1 bro!
and Huron HS is better academically.
Who wants to live in the burbs?
none of those in saline
My kids attend Saline schools now. We used to live in Hermosa Beach, CA, where we had every color of the rainbow, but everyone was in the same tax bracket.
When we moved here, it was eye opening for our kids because there was surprising economic diversity (though little ethnic/racial diversity). Saline's got everything from a mobile home park to multimillion dollar houses, and from auto workers & farmers to doctors, lawyers and bankers.
My middle child's two best friends could not be more different, background-wise: one lives on a fourth generation family farm 8 miles SW of town, while the other's parents are a Daimler exec and a partner at a law firm and belong to the local country club.
I'm glad my kids have experienced both kinds of diversity, and the schools have been great so far.
"Saline is definitely very white. But it's not homogeneous."
Actually - for Washtenaw county it is.
It is homogenous racially and economically compared to both Huron and Pioneer.
It's a very good school system.
Mean SAT scores, 2016:
(best in state) Bloomfield Hills International: 1334.4
Washtenaw International: 1302.4
(best public in state) Northville: 1192.3
Saline: 1177.1
AA Pioneer: 1175.7
AA Community: 1170.8
Washtenaw Middle College: 1168.6
AA Huron: 1168.3
AA Skyline: 1162.7
Dexter: 1161.3
Chelsea: 1151.5
those means are reflective of who is attending the school much moreso than the quality of education/instruction they're getting. And based on the fact that Huron's socioeconimics would suggest lower scores, one might deduce its actual instruction is better, although it would be interesting to see an analysis based that accounts for demographic predictors.
But I'm sure both schools (Saline and Huron) are capable of sufficiently challenging gifted students (which is really what matters most in terms of academic rigor) and at both schools, you'd find classmates who enrich and challenge you (which is what matters from a social standpoint).
Without knowing anything else about extracurriculars or place of living preferences, then it does essentially become a matter of whether you want a more or less diverse experience.
Yes... which also strengthens my point.
Having poorer, lower IQ, kids means test scores will be worse - but says nothing about the quality of the school.
The fact that test scores at Huron are within the noise margin (but slightly lower) compared to scores at Saline - with pretty large differences in socioeconomic status (and likely correlation with lower IQ) implies that Huron is a BETTER school.
Greenhills' average SAT 1420 and average ACT 31
Granted, I was at Saline HS over twenty years ago, but even then, it was at least comparable to the high schools in Ann Arbor (probably slight advantage to Ann Arbor due to size, demographics and funding), although I am sure at that point our graduation rate was probably slightly lower, but not because it was any less academically adept necessarily. We had a really great relationship with the trades at the time though, but I don't imagine it is the same now.
Just go to community. Ten years from now you'll be drinking a PBR with all your other townie buddies at the blind pig and thank me. I think you need to enter a raffle or something tho? That may have changed. They are all pretty good tho and have pros and cons. Do you have any specific interests or play any sports?
Yeah thanks for the question- I play a lot of instruments (guitar, drums, trumpet, cello, and piano) and sports (football, hockey, and track)
Community is awesome but you have to do sports and music at one of the other high schools anyway (it doesn't offer either except jazz band). Might be easier coming into a new place to do sports and music with your actual classmates.
Also, Community basically doesn't have any AP classes, etc, if you are interested in those. Its math/science curriculum is not particularly advanced as an upperclassman.
If you're more into journalism/literature/etc Community might be a good place though!
CHS kids can take AP classes at one of the other schools, I believe.
But Zingerman's is next door to Commie High so there's that!
I notice a lot of Community HS kids are dual enrolled at U-M during 11th and 12th grade. I assume there's a discounted agreement between U-M and AAPS?
If you are artistically inclined I would say community. I have never met a community kid who wasn't a pleasure to jam with. Maybe they don't have the offical "band" or w/e but in my experience growing as a musician is more about who you surround yourself and what you do. I believe community is the best for that.
I don't follow it closely anymore so you should verify but Pioneer has had a top notch nationally recognized music program for decades. As far as I know, that is still the case:
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/05/pioneer_high_school_earns_gram.html
*Caveat - I'm obviously biased as a 94 Pioneer grad.
the property is too valuable and will be re-developed.
eh I don't know if you could call East Lansing the Ann Arbor area, but MSU is pretty good for a high school. Don't know if I'm willing to travel all that way though.
They only have grades 3-9 there
Pioneer!