Twenty-five high schools in the Lower Hudson Valley rank among the top 100 in New York state, according to U.S. News and World Report s annual rankings.
Bronxville High School ranked highest in the region, No. 13 in New York and No. 145 in the nation. It is the highest-ranking high school in the state outside of New York City. Edgemont (14), Byram Hills (18) and Rye (19) also made the top 20 out more than 1,200 schools.
Nanuet High School staked Rockland County s place in the top 100, ranking No. 96. The top-ranking high school in Putnam County is Haldane High School, coming in at No. 125.
Townsend Harris High School in Queens maintained its 2020 spot as the No. 1 high school in New York. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, kept its ranking as the top high school in the country.
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Hadley’s Chinese immersion charter ranked No. 2 high school in state
Kathleen Wang, the principal at the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School in Hadley, stands on a play structure with the school in the background. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
By SCOTT MERZBACH
Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School in Hadley is the second-best high school in Massachusetts, according to a survey published Tuesday by U.S. News and World Report.
The charter school’s ranking, based on a combination of students excelling at state tests, doing well on various college-level exams and graduating at high rates, placed it sixth among all charter schools in the nation, and 40th among all schools in the country, in the magazine’s 2021 Best High Schools rankings.
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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.