Business Week Names the Preuss
School Among America's Best High Schools
January 29, 2009
By Pat JaCoby
Business Week magazine and BusinessWeek.com has named The Preuss School at the University of California, San Diego the state’s “best public high school with an economically disadvantaged population” in its January 2009 publication.
BusinessWeek.com worked with GreatSchools, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that rates schools and provides an online community for parents, to list the best high school in each state in a number of different categories. As the “Best Low Income School,” The Preuss School had the highest weighted test score of the most economically disadvantaged schools in California, the editors said.
The Preuss School is a middle and high school dedicated to providing an intensive college preparatory education for motivated low-income students who will become the first in their families to graduate from college. The school is jointly chartered by the San Diego Unified School District and UC San Diego.
In 2008 rankings, The Preuss School was named sixth among the nation’s top high schools by
Newsweek magazine and eighth among more than 21,000 public high schools by
U.S. News & World Report.
Media Contact: Pat JaCoby, 858 534-7404
