Special Rankings
H-B Woodlawn enjoys high rankings both locally and nationally. H-B Woodlawn was rated 1st in the 2005 Challenge Index in the area. It received an Equity and Excellence rating of 82.7% that year. The average rating for all U.S. schools is 14.1%. In the 2006 survey by Newsweek ranking high schools nation-wide, H-B Woodlawn ranked several slots down from where it had been in previous years - 13 (compared with number 5 in the 2005 survey).
There is some controversy in ranking H-B Woodlawn nationally at all as a "school." Students do not actually receive diplomas from H-B Woodlawn, but rather their home schools from around Arlington county.
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