Performance
Wilson is consistently rated among the top high schools in the United States; it was ranked #24 on the 2006 version of Newsweek's Top 1200 U.S. high schools. 87% of its teachers have Master's degrees. It has offered a large variety of AP courses for many years, and has recently also offered a number of IB courses. Among the AP courses it has offered are Latin BC (2nd year AP Latin), Calculus BC (2nd year AP Calculus), and Physics BC (2nd year AP Physics); it currently offers 15 AP courses. It also offers courses such as a post-AP computer science class and astrophysics. 83% of its alumni go on to college, including Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, MIT, and Stanford.
In 2000, Wilson became one of only 270 U.S. high schools approved to offer International Baccalaureate (IB) classes. The IB program is offered as a completely separate course to take with an entirely different diploma available. Also IB graduates are granted an automatic free ride to the University of Rochester.
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