By Jeffrey Williams-Maisonet

According to Patch.com’s best high schools list, Channel View High School for Research is ranked 67th amongst 75 other high schools across New York City.

Giving the reputation that Rockaway has about low-performing schools, this sheds a little light on how a struggling community can still shell out good grades. Just last year- Scholars Academy was ranked 5th on Department of Education’s rankings.

Those rankings currently unavailable for 2017.

However, none the less, Rockaway can say they have one of the city’s brightest students in their community.

Read more and see who else made the list here.

https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/new-york-citys-best-high-schools-2017-rankings