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.
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- Based on Advanced Placement (AP) tests
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- Based on International Baccalaureate (IB) tests
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- 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
Georgia?
I went to Pope High School in Marietta, GA, and looking at the list of top Georgia schools, I have to say that it's kind of a joke. Cobb County has some of the best schools in the country and definitely in the state, including Pope HS, Walton HS, Kell HS and Lassiter HS. (Pope and Walton are usually in competition for the top-ranked state school.) To think that not a single Cobb County school made the list is extremely puzzling, especially considering some of the (frankly) far-inferior Georgia schools that made the cut.
Money
See? Pouring in lots of money doesn't result in better education, we pour alot of money (more than any of these) into the schools where I live and not one of them are on this list!
Rodney of MS. Mississippi is not at the top anything but racism and inbreeding.
Wow! Highest academic rating nationwide huh? But, your school won't allow you in the ratings. BS.. That is pure BS. If your grammar and spelling is any indication of your schools prowess in education, then you should rethink that statement. Somehow, I think you're full of it. I have never seen anywhere in Mississippi on the top of ANY list education wise or living wise. In fact the most intolerant and backwards people I have ever met in my life come from Mississippi. I work with many every day, and yes some are from Madison, and they're also all way too proud of your state also. The saddest part about your post though, is the fact that this blog box that we type in on this forum has SPELL CHECK and you can't even use it. Oh, yeah, check your stats, MS has the WORST education in the U.S.
HA!
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