Engineering graduates of Illinois Institute of Technology are reported receiving the highest average starting salaries in the school's history -- $550 a month.

Sheen also has a great affinity for the University of Notre Dame and in 2008 was awarded the Laetare Medal, the highest honor bestowed on American Catholics, in May 2008 at the school's commencement.

The high school's JROTC program has held the rating of " Honor Unit With Distinction ", the highest possible unit ranking within the JROTC program, for the past 33 consecutive years ( as of 2007 ).

Barrington High School reported that in 2011 its students scored a composite average of 25 on the ACT college entrance exam, which is the highest average in the school's history and roughly four points higher than the state and national averages.

In 2008, the law school's graduates reported the highest pass rate of Ohio's nine law schools for first-time takers of the Ohio State Bar Exam.

While at Miami High Graham was the recipient of the Sigma Chi Award, the school's highest honor.

Additionally, Stanford University Medical Center ( the medical school's major teaching affiliate ) is ranked 17th out of 4, 825 hospitals evaluated, making it the second highest ranked hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to U. S. News ' Best Hospitals 2011-2012.

The school's declared aim is to " Promote the highest standards of work and behaviour and to provide opportunities for success for all children in a caring environment of mutual trust, respect and harmony.

The inspection report rated the school's standard of education as " outstanding ", which is the highest rating achievable.

In 81 games with Cornell, Nieuwendyk scored 73 goals and 151 points, both among the highest totals in the school's history.

The incoming class also has the distinction of having highest percentage of women ( 48 %) in school's 160 year history.

Students in each chapter who have succeeded in maintaining the highest GPA from among their school's membership may be awarded the Maria Leonard Senior Book Award, the presentation of a book with an inscribed bookplate.

In 2002 he received the school's highest alumni honor, The Sixth Form Leadership Award.

Barrington High School reported that in 2011 its students scored a composite average of 25 on the ACT college entrance exam, which is reportedly the highest average in the school's history and roughly four points higher than the state and national averages.

In the letter, McGee, Head of the Global Investment Banking Division at Barclays Capital and one of Wall Street's highest paid bankers, attacked the school's administration for altering a previously planned student pep rally.

The school's 2007 – 08, 2009 – 10, and 2010-11 API scores were the highest in San Diego County for high schools.

While playing for the Tigers, he became arguably the school's highest profile athlete since the days of Walter Payton and Jackie Slater.

In the event of a tie for the overall competition, the school's band that is ranked the highest at the Texas UIL Regional Marching Band Competition will be the year's winner.

The Rajun ' Bull Marching Band has consistently earned the highest ranking of a Superior, since the school's opening in 1988.

Also in 2004 Dooley was inducted into UGA's Circle of Honor, which is the school's highest tribute to former athletes and coaches.

Each year the school's VCE results are among the highest in the state, topping the statewide VCE results seven years running ( 2002 – 2008 inclusive ).

In the event of a tie for the overall competition, the school's band that is ranked the highest at the Texas UIL Regional Marching Band Competition will be the year's winner.

He achieved the school's highest accolade in the form of a School Honours Blazer.

In 1887, Slemp entered the Corp of Cadets at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia and graduated in 1891, he graduated with the highest grade point average in the school's history — a record that stands today.

In a further study, Thornberg concluded that there are seven stages of moral deliberation as a bystander in bystander situations among the Swedish schoolchildren he observed and interviewed: ( a ) noticing that something is wrong, i. e., children pay selective attention to their environment, and sometimes they don't tune in on a distressed peer if they're in a hurry or their view is obstructed, ( b ) interpreting a need for help-sometimes children think others are just playing rather than actually in distress or they display pluralistic ignorance, ( c ) feeling empathy, i. e., having tuned in on a situation and concluded that help is needed, children might feel sorry for an injured peer, or angry about unwarranted aggression ( empathic anger ), ( d ) processing the school's moral frames-Thornberg identified five contextual ingredients influencing children's behavior in bystander situations ( the definition of a good students, tribe caring, gender stereotypes, and social-hierarchy-dependent morality ), ( e ) scanning for social status and relations, i. e., students were less likely to intervene if they didn't define themselves as friends of the victim or belonging to the same significant social category as the victim, or if there were high-status students present or involved as aggressors-conversely, lower-status children were more likely to intervene if only a few other low-status children were around, ( f ) condensing motives for action, such as considering a number of factors such as possible benefits and costs, and ( g ) acting, i. e., all of the above coalesced into a decision to intervene or not.

On June 1, 2011, 5 days before graduation in the school's final year in Springfield, the school's original campus on Ames Hill Drive in Springfield was devastated by a rare category 3 tornado that tore through several neighborhoods in the city and surrounding towns.

The school's chess team in 2012 also placed 1st at the CalChess Scholastic State Championships in the blitz category.

After his first attempt at golf he was able to score in the low 40s on the school's nine-hole course ; after using roller skates for the first time, he was able to perform one-legged stunts within minutes.

The school's SES score is derived by selecting a sample of parent's addresses and mapping these to a Census Collector District from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Census.

The Bulldogs ( or Blue & Blue ) defeated the Nantucket Whalers by the score of 16-7 to claim its school's first state championship.

In 2003, the school's California State Academic Performance Index ( API ) score was 911, the leading score among all comprehensive public schools in the State of California.

The school's 2005 API score was 914, its 2009 API score was 933, and its 2010 API score was 931.

The ACT Scaling Test ( AST ), sat by tertiary students, linked a student's ability with the school's mean score in each course and was used to scale students in different courses and schools.

Each rank ranges from 1 to 10, with a score of 10 meaning that the school's API fell into the top 10 %.

A school's score or placement on the API is designed to be an indicator of a school's performance level and is calculated annually by the California Department of Education, primarily based on CST and CAHSEE tests.

One criticism until recently was that a school's API score took no account of a school's student dropout rate.

The average SAT score has increased since the school's inception, and been above 1200 ( excluding the writing section ) in most recent years.

In recent years, the school's academic scores have risen significantly, most notably by reaching an API ( Academic Performance Index ) score of 720 in 2011, a jump of 122 points since 2004.

The school's marching band finished in first place at the 2007 United States Scholastic Band Association National Championships, competing as a Group I band at M & T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland on November 16, 2007, with a score of 93. 35.

The school's percussion ensemble is also considered to be one of the top in the nation, and in 2012 the ensemble swept the World Championships in the concert division with a record setting score of 99. 6 out of 100.

Each school's score, and rank, was based on a simple formula: " divide the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or other college-level tests a school gave in 2009 by the number of graduating seniors.

Sales ' record-breaking controversy was later parodied in an episode of the TV series King of the Hill, where an injured Arlen High School football player is allowed to score a touchdown to break the school's all time record that was previously held by Bill Dauterive despite protests from Bill's teammates ( most notably Hank Hill ); later in the episode Bill, exploiting a loophole that says he still has eligibility left because he failed to complete his senior year before joining the Army, returns to Arlen High and scores a touchdown to tie that record despite the protests of the injured player whose record Bill tied.

Children who could not afford to go to fee-paying independent schools were provided with free or subsidised places-if they were able to score within the top 10-15 % of applicants in the school's entrance examination.

The school's California API score was 562 for 2006, and of its student population, 77 % are in a Free or Reduced Lunch program and 30 % are designated as English Learners.

* 508 of the school's 3, 314 students took an Advanced Placement test ; 89 % of them passed and 30 % received a perfect score.