Is your child slated to go to one of the top 100 high schools? Here is the second half of a list I’ve started in a previous blog. What makes them the best of the best is that they have the highest porportion of students taking either Advanced Placement exams or International Bacclaureate exams.
Massachusetts
#82 Boston Latin Boston
Maryland
#15 Richard Montgomery Rockville
#34 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Bethesda
#51 Wootton Rockville
#75 Churchill Potomac
Michigan
#9 International Academy Bloomfield Hills
#55 Black River Holland
Missouri
#40 Metro Academic & Classical St. Louis
New Jersey
#83 McNair Academic Jersey City
New York
#4 City Honors Buffalo
#23 John Miller-Great Neck North Great Neck
#24 Wilson Magnet Rochester
#27 Jericho Jericho
#31 Great Neck South Great Neck
#32 South Side Rockville Centre
#35 Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor
#42 Rye Rye
#56 Edgemont Scarsdale
#58 Pittsford Mendon Pittsford
#61 Pittsford Sutherland Pittsford
#62 Greeley Chappaqua
#69 Manhasset Manhasset
#89 Blind Brook Rye Brook
#93 Brighton Rochester
#95 Briarcliff Briarcliff Manor
#97 Vandermeulen Port Jefferson
North Carolina
#16 Myers Park Charlotte
#53 Raleigh Charter Raleigh
#59 Enloe Raleigh
#66 Harding University Charlotte
#94 North Mecklenburg Huntersville
Ohio
#65 Walnut Hills Cincinnati
#68 Indian Hill Cincinnati
#98 Chagrin Falls Chagrin Falls
#100 Wyoming Wyoming
Oklahoma
#17 Classen School of Oklahoma City
Advanced Studies
#84 Booker T. Washington Tulsa
Pennsylvania
#74 Masterman Philadelphia
South Carolina
#10 Academic Magnet North Charleston
#36 Southside Greenville
Tennesee
#39 Martin Luther King Nashville
#43 Hume-Fogg Academic Nashville
Texas
#1 Talented & Gifted Dallas
#8 Science/Engineering Magnet Dallas
#11 Science Academy of Mercedes
South Texas
#12 North Hills School Irving
#18 Highland Park Dallas
#64 Communication Arts San Antonio
#88 YES College Prep Southeast Houston
#92 South Texas High School Mercedes
for Health Professions
#96 Diamond Hill-Jarvis Fort Worth
Virginia
#13 H-B Woodlawn Arlington
#19 Clarke County Berryville
#41 George Mason Falls Church
#47 Yorktown Arlington
#52 Washington-Lee Arlington
#81 Langley McLean
#87 Warwick Newport News
#86 McLean McLean
#91 W. T. Woodson Fairfax
#99 Centreville Clifton
Washington
#37 Newport Bellevue
#44 Interlake Bellevue
#49 Bellevue Bellevue
#57 International School Bellevue
So there you have it, the last part of the top 100 high schools in America. It is interesting to note that while the editors who compiled this list feel that these high schools take seriously the challenge to prepare young students for college and beyond, there are a group of up and coming ‘non-traditional’ schools that are seeing results too. We’ll take a look at some of these new alternatives to traditional high school and see how they’re changing American education.
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