Montpelier High School is seen in Montpelier, Vt., Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. Standard & Poor's, which analyzed data for U.S. News & World Report's ranking of America's top 100 schools, made a mistake in calculating the score for Montpelier High School and erroneously ranked it the nation's fifth-best public high school. Now, the magazine has apologized to the school, saying that while Montpelier High is among the top 500 of 1,800 high schools nationally, it is not No. 5.The financial services giant, which analyzed data for U.S. News & World Report's inaugural ranking of America's top 100 schools, made a mistake in calculating the score for Montpelier High School and erroneously ranked it the nation's fifth-best public high school.
"We were up there among all these schools for the talented and gifted, with special names, and then here we are `Montpelier High School,' named after our town," said Nate Ingham, 17, a senior. "It was funny that such a national thing that could be messed up so badly, and that it would happen to us." Yahoo News
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