MAP:See the Top 100 Public High Schools
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29 states in addition to the Region of Columbia have schools in the main 100 of the 2022 Best Secondary Schools public rankings. Almost 50% of the profoundly positioned schools are gathered in four states: Arizona, California, Florida and New York.
Arizona has 13 schools in the best 100, the a large portion of any state. That's despite having only 425 ranked high schools overall (the largest state, California, has more than 1,600). The majority of Arizona's high-ranked schools are located in Phoenix and Tucson or surrounding suburbs, with one in Flagstaff. Of those 13 high-ranked Arizona high schools, 10 are part of the BASIS Charter Schools network.
Two states - Florida and New York - each have 11 schools in the best 100. California follows intently behind at 10, with half of those schools in the more noteworthy Los Angeles region, remembering for Carson, Cerritos, Cypress, Riverside and Wilmington.
Eight of the 11 best secondary schools in Florida are close to Miami, with the excess three schools in Jacksonville, Melbourne and Osprey. New York's all's highest level secondary schools are situated in the New York City region, remembering three for Manhattan, two in Brooklyn, two in the Bronx, two in Sovereigns, one on Lengthy Island and one on Staten Island.
The quantity of secondary schools in each state contrasts altogether - Hawaii, for example, had just 38 secondary schools absolute in the rankings. In Texas, 1,481 schools were ranked overall, and nine made the top 100 list. State testing data from 2019-2020 was not available for this year's rankings as the coronavirus pandemic led to the cancellation of state exams in the spring of 2020.
Therefore, mathematics and reading assessment results were based on the prior three ranking years – 2016-2017, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 – while state science exam scores were from 2018-2019. Additionally, U.S. News used 2019-2020 data for AP and IB assessments.
Enlistment sizes shift at every secondary school, however range from around 140 understudies in grades 9-12 at the School For Cutting edge Examinations Property in Florida during the 2019-2020 school year to almost 6,000 at Brooklyn Specialized Secondary School in New York. The map underneath shows the areas of the main 100 Best Secondary Schools cross country and can be sifted by school type - sanction, magnet or customary. Click on the spots to dive deeper into each school.