These New Hampshire High Schools Are Among 2022’s Best: U.S. News

This 12 months’s record of finest excessive faculties evaluated greater than 17,800 faculties nationwide, together with 83 within the Granite State.

The 2022 rating of finest excessive faculties is meant to indicate how nicely the nation’s public faculties serve all college students, no matter achievement degree, by educating them fundamental abilities and getting ready them for college-level work, based on a information launch from U.S. Information.

Households can even use the rankings to see how faculties evaluate on the nationwide, state and native ranges on components corresponding to commencement charges and faculty readiness.

Whereas 1000’s of faculties have been evaluated, these New Hampshire faculties have been ranked among the many high 5 within the state, based on U.S. Information:

• Academy for Science and Design Constitution Faculty in Nashua
• Windham Excessive Faculty
• Hanover Excessive Faculty
• Hopkinton Excessive Faculty
• Profile Senior Excessive Faculty in Bethlehem

This 12 months, the highest 15 faculties nationally are in 14 completely different states.

Thomas Jefferson Excessive Faculty for Science and Expertise in Alexandria, Virginia, was ranked No. 1 within the nation, in addition to amongst magnet faculties.

Listed here are the highest 10 faculties on this 12 months’s nationwide Greatest Excessive Faculties rating:

1. Thomas Jefferson Excessive Faculty for Science and Expertise – Alexandria, Virginia
2. Tutorial Magnet Excessive Faculty – North Charleston, South Carolina
3. Signature Faculty – Evansville, Indiana
4. Faculty for Superior Research – Miami, Florida
5. Payton Faculty Preparatory Excessive Faculty – Chicago, Illinois
6. The Davidson Academy of Nevada – Reno, Nevada
7. Central Magnet Faculty – Murfreesboro, Tennessee
8. The Faculty for the Gifted and Gifted – Dallas, Texas
9. Gwinnett Faculty of Arithmetic, Science and Expertise – Lawrenceville, Georgia
10. Julia R. Masterman Secondary Faculty – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

This 12 months’s faculties have been ranked on six measures: faculty readiness, faculty curriculum breadth, state evaluation efficiency, state evaluation proficiency, studying and math proficiency, studying and math efficiency, underserved pupil efficiency and commencement charges.

The rankings included Bedford Excessive Faculty in ninth place, Exeter Excessive Faculty in sixteenth, Souhegan Excessive Faculty in Amherst as seventeenth, Winnacunnet Excessive Faculty in Hampton ranked 18th, and Portsmouth Excessive Faculty coming in nineteenth. The Digital Studying Academy Public Constitution Faculty was listed twenty ninth. Nashua Excessive Faculty North was listed thirty first, Milford Excessive Faculty thirty second, Nashua Excessive Faculty South thirty sixth, and Londonderry Senior Excessive Faculty thirty seventh. Merrimack Excessive Faculty got here in at 14 whereas Salem Excessive Faculty was 45. Harmony Excessive Faculty was listed as fifty fifth and Merrimack Valley Excessive Faculty in Penacook was ranked 57th.

The info used on this 12 months’s rating is from the 2019-20 educational faculty 12 months. U.S. Information adjusted its calculation of those measures to account for the influence COVID-19 had on faculties within the 2019-20 faculty 12 months.

Since most states closed faculties for in-person instruction beginning in March 2020 — sometimes simply earlier than most states conduct assessments — the U.S. Division of Schooling granted waivers permitting all states to forgo state testing for the 2019-20 faculty 12 months.

To account for this, U.S. Information relied on previous evaluation information from the three prior rating years. Researchers additionally integrated state science evaluation information from the 2018-19 faculty 12 months.

Learn extra concerning the Greatest Excessive Faculties methodology.

Along with the nationwide rankings, U.S. Information additionally revealed rankings on the state, metro space and faculty district ranges. Solely metro areas and faculty districts with three or extra excessive faculties have been included in these subrankings.

Signature Faculty in Indiana is on the high of the record for constitution faculties, and Thomas Jefferson Excessive Faculty for Science and Expertise in Virginia is the No. 1 magnet faculty. The Davidson Academy of Nevada is the highest STEM faculty.