Cheney High School receives national award

Cheney High School has again received a bronze ranking on U.S. News and World Reports’ “2015 Best High Schools.”

According to a May 12 news release, the rankings are produced in conjunction with RTI International, a global nonprofit social science research firm, and is based on a complex methodology formula. That formula is “based on three aspects of school performance: (1) the performance of all students on state assessments in reading and mathematics; (2) the performance of disadvantaged student subgroups — defined as Black/African-American students, Hispanic/Latino students, and students wh...