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
nonsense
Why do they have a handicap factor for the minority and poverty levels, to get these scores.
Double Standard
everyone was perfectly aware that it's double standard since they choose not to consider private & public schools. If I was them, I would redo it correctly since it's not accurate! I'm sure they are not interested in this since they did not make any plans to redo it
QUESTION THESE #'S
I question these numbers as I am personally familiar with some schools on this list.
Moreover, anything data pertaining to "high schools" is questionable as schools are in shambles thanks to 1/2 century of service by Edward Kennedy, cheating, and the teachers unions not doing their jobs in a responsible fashion.
This is factual.
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