A state-by-state breakdown is available here.Īlong with the national rankings, U.S. Maryland, Florida, and California claim the highest percentage of eligible high schools that received gold and silver medals. In this year’s edition of Best High Schools, 6,041 schools received medals. News differentiates high schools with gold, silver and bronze medals, using gold medals to indicate the greatest level of college readiness.

“We encourage parents to use the data included in the 2017 Best High Schools rankings to help make informed decisions about their children’s education.” “It is critical that students graduate from high school to put them on a successful path to college and a career,” said Anita Narayan, managing editor of Education at U.S.

The rankings include data on more than 22,000 public high schools.

News methodology, which combined four aspects of school performance: (1) the performance of all students on state assessments in reading and mathematics (2) the performance of disadvantaged student subgroups on these assessments (3) the school’s graduation rate (4) and the rates at which high school students participate in and perform well on Advanced Placement ® (AP) tests. Researchers at RTI helped collect and analyze the data behind the rankings using the U.S. 1 spot nationally, followed by two other Arizona schools in the BASIS charter school network: BASIS Tucson North and BASIS Oro Valley. News collaborated with RTI International to research and produce the rankings.īASIS Scottsdale in Arizona earned the No.

News & World Report today announced the 2017 Best High Schools rankings, highlighting top-performing public schools on a state and national level.

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