There are almost 30,000 public high schools in the United States. This ranking rewards schools by poverty vs graduation rate/college bound. It’s a poll about beating the odds.
This year’s rankings were weighted by:
Enrollment Rate—25 percent
Graduation Rate—20 percent
Weighted AP/IB/Dual Enrollment composite—17.5 percent
Weighted SAT/ACT composite—17.5 percent
Change in student enrollment between 9th-12th grades, to control for dropout rates—10 percent
Counselor-to-Student Ratio—10 percent
The Massachusetts public high schools that made this list are:
#16 Dover-Sherborn Regional High
#52 Medfield Senior High
#67 Newton North High
#75 Westwood High
#93 Hopkinton High
#128 Shrewsbury Sr. High
#139 Groton Dunstable Regional
#207 Longmeadow High
#253 Newburyport High
#279 Georgetown High School
#315 Arlington High
#381 King Philip Regional High
#396 Marblehead High
#424 Ashland High
#448 Natick High
#451 Braintree High
#492 Chelmsford High