The top 25 high schools in California are: Previously, only gold and silver medal winners were ranked numerically on the state level. The state rankings were based on whether a high school received a gold, silver or a bronze medal and had a CRI value of 10 or higher. (Other schools may have received a bronze award, but were not ranked nationally due to a lack of a “college readiness score.”) To be ranked numerically nationally, schools had to pass steps 1-3 and have a college readiness index of 20.91 or above.Ī total of 6,041 schools were ranked, 500 schools receiving gold medals, 2,109 schools receiving silver medals and the remaining 3,432 schools received bronze medals, while also being ranked nationally.

News calculated a college readiness index, which was the number of 12th graders who took and passed at least one AP test, divided by the number of 12th graders at that school. For the 2017 rankings, the graduation rate reflect students who entered the ninth grade in the 2011-2012 school year. To pass step three, high schools had to have a graduation rate of 75 percent or greater. News looked at graduation rates and college readiness performance. Schools that passed this step then moved on to step two, which assessed whether disadvantaged students performed at or better than state averages for the least-advantaged students.įor the next two steps, U.S. The first step determined whether students at a particular school were performing better than statistically expected for students in that state, factoring in percentages of economically disadvantaged students to identify schools.

To be considered among the best, high schools had to pass a rigorous four-step process that sought to determine whether a school was serving all of its students and not just those who are college bound. The 2017 rankings of best high schools identify the top-performing public schools at both the national and the state level and include date on more than 28,000 high schools. News, 416 received silver medals and 154 schools received bronze medals. Eighty-five California high schools were given gold medals by U.S. Oxford Academy in Cypress ranked as the second best in the state, followed by Gretchen Whitney High School in Cerritos. Overall, the school ranked as the 10th best high school in the country. In California, Pacific Collegiate Charter School in Santa Cruz earned the title of the best high school in the state. News and World Report has crunched the numbers for 2017, releasing its annual list of best high schools in the country, ranking the schools on a national and a state level.

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