Palisades Charter High Named A Top U.S. High School: U.S. News - Pacific Palisades, CA - The annual ranking released by U.S. News and World Report ranks schools based on factors such as graduation rates and academic performance.
Cranford Named Among Top NJ High Schools: U.S. News - Cranford, NJ - The annual ranking released by U.S. News and World Report ranks schools based on factors such as graduation rates and academic performance.
West Morris Central's Place Among U.S. High Schools: U.S. News - Long Valley, NJ - U.S. News ranked NJ schools based on several factors amid the COVID crisis. Here's where local high schools landed in 2021.
View Comments
The top-ranked public high schools in the country do two things really well: They graduate their students and they prepare them for college.
U.S. News & World Report ranked nearly 18,000 public high schools (a mix of charter, magnet and traditional schools) using state education data from the 2018-2019 school year to come up with its latest ranking of schools.
One Delaware school, Charter School of Wilmington, made the national top 100 at No. 74.
Here s how the rankings were calculated:
College readiness, based on the proportions of 12th grade students who took and earned a qualifying score on AP and/or IB exams.
Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies, Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School District, Edison
High Technology High School, Monmouth County Vocational School District, Lincroft
Bergen County Academies, Bergen County Vocational Technical School District, Hackensack
Middlesex County Academy for Allied Health, Middlesex County Vocational and Technical School District, Woodbridge
Dr. Ronald E McNair High School, Jersey City Public Schools, Jersey City
Union County Magnet High School, Union County Vocational-Technical School District, Scotch Plains
Biotechnology High School, Monmouth County Vocational School District, Freehold
Bergen County Technical High School - Teterboro, Bergen County Vocational Technical School District, Teterboro
Academy for Information Technology, Union County Vocational-Technical School District, Scotch Plains