Best High Schools: Gold Medal List
We looked at more than 21,000 public high schools in 48 states. The following are the 100 schools that performed the best in our three-step America’s Best High Schools analysis.
- yellow
- Based on Advanced Placement (AP) tests
- blue
- Based on International Baccalaureate (IB) tests
- green
- Based on both Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate tests
| Rank | School Name and Location | Quality-adjusted Exams per Test Taker |
College Readiness |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Alexandria, VA | 6.8 | 100.0 |
| 2 | Oxford Academy Cypress, CA | 4.4 | 99.5 |
| 3 | Pacific Collegiate Charter Santa Cruz, CA | 4.1 | 98.8 |
| 4 | High Technology High School Lincroft, NJ | 3.1 | 98.4 |
| 5 | Design and Architectural Senior High Miami, FL | 2.7 | 97.8 |
| 6 | International Academy Bloomfield Hills, MI | 5.9 | 97.8 |
| 7 | International Baccalaureate School at BHS Bartow, FL | 5.3 | 97.5 |
| 8 | Preuss School UCSD La Jolla, CA | 1.9 | 97.1 |
| 9 | Academic Magnet High School No. Charleston, SC | 4.0 | 95.5 |
| 10 | Gretchen Whitney High Cerritos, CA | 4.1 | 94.4 |
| 11 | Pine View School Osprey, FL | 4.1 | 94.4 |
| 12 | Maine School of Science & Math Limestone, ME | 2.8 | 94.4 |
| 13 | Basis Tucson Tucson, AZ | 3.2 | 93.8 |
| 14 | International School Bellevue, WA | 2.6 | 91.8 |
| 15 | Ridgeview Classical Charter Schools Fort Collins, CO | 2.9 | 91.3 |
| 16 | Benjamin Franklin Senior High School New Orleans, LA | 3.3 | 90.7 |
| 17 | Early College at Guilford Greensboro, NC | 3.4 | 90.0 |
| 18 | School of Science & Engineering Dallas, TX | 5.6 | 88.9 |
| 19 | Idea College Preparatory Donna, TX | 1.0 | 88.9 |
| 20 | Raleigh Charter High Raleigh, NC | 4.8 | 88.9 |
| 21 | Lennox Mathematics, Science, and Technology Academy Lennox, CA | 1.5 | 88.6 |
| 22 | University High School Tucson, AZ | 4.7 | 87.7 |
| 23 | Stuyvesant High School New York, NY | 3.6 | 87.6 |
| 24 | International Community School Kirkland, WA | 3.6 | 87.5 |
| 25 | Loveless Academic Magnet Program High School Montgomery, AL | 2.4 | 86.8 |
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Reader Comments
Hunter
The omission of Hunter does seem like a pretty glaring problem for this list, last I heard they were the number one public Ivy feeder in the country.
If you want to test college preparedness you have to look at college placement, it would be easy enough to weight the results considering they also publish the college rankings. The reliance on APs is also very dubious at a time when a lot of high schools, especially very good high schools, are moving away from AP tests because they constrain the curriculum too tightly, especially when looking at subjects outside math and science, or because students who are going to college anyway don't need to do college work before they get there.
Also, there are no Catholic schools because private schools were not considered, which also makes this list completely unreliable. I would like to see them do the College or Grad lists and omit all private institutions and see how credible people thought the results were.
"Provincial Bigots"?
Andy said:
"A Mississippi school in some town no one has ever heard of can not match a school in the greatest city in the United States. NYC."
Do you even know what the word 'bigot' means? Or the word 'irony'? An ignorant, narrow-minded kid like you has no right to say that you're EXPECTING to get accepted into 4 Ivy League schools. Go deflate your huge ego and learn what words mean before you try to sound intelligent on some stupid thread, big boy.
To bad
Get over it the list has been made
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