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Schools that rank among the top 500 on the College Readiness Index receive Gold Medal status on the Best High Schools list. Using these scores, we calculate a College Readiness Index that determines the school’s national ranking. From this point, only schools that perform above expectations advance to the next step, which is to assess whether a school’s disadvantaged students outperform other disadvantaged students across the state in math and reading proficiency.įor schools that make it to the third and final step, we measure the percentage of students who display college-level achievement after completing Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate courses and taking final exams.

Rates at which high school students participate in and perform well on Advanced Placement® and International Baccalaureate tests.īecause household income level plays a significant factor in student performance, the first step in the analysis is to run a regression model to adjust performance expectations for schools with high poverty rates.

Performance of disadvantaged student subgroups on these assessments.

Performance of all students on state assessments in reading and mathematics.

Our statisticians generate these rankings using a methodology that combines three aspects of school performance: Using Regression Modelling to Level the Field across Socioeconomic Status In addition to bringing prestige to these top-performing schools, every school that gets analyzed can use the data to assess its own performance and gauge how it compares with other schools in its district and state, as well as throughout the country. Only about one-third of the nearly 20,000 high schools included in the analysis qualify for national ranking and receive a College Readiness Index score. News & World Report publishes a “ Best High Schools” list to recognize schools that exceeded expectations across a range of academic performance indicators.