Dallas, TX
3 Dallas high schools lead Texas’ best, among top in US
Texas’ three finest excessive faculties are all from the Dallas space, in line with the most recent rankings from U.S. Information & World Report.
DALLAS — Three Dallas-area excessive faculties high off the checklist of the state’s finest and in addition slate among the many nation’s most interesting, in line with the most recent rankings from U.S. Information & World Report.
The brand new rankings put Dallas ISD’s Faculty for the Gifted and Gifted at No. 1 within the Lone Star State and No. 8 nationally. It additionally ranks because the eighth-best college within the nation for STEM (science, know-how, engineering, and math) and fourth-best magnet college within the US.
“Our neighborhood is happy to be ranked as the very best highschool in Texas and high eight within the U.S.,” mentioned Arnoldo Zuñiga, TAG principal. “Our college students, lecturers and employees continued to rise to the problem to make sure our college students could be school and profession prepared, all whereas navigating by way of a world pandemic.”
Texas’ second- and third-best faculties additionally got here from Dallas ISD: Irma Lerma Rangel Younger Ladies’s Management Faculty and Science and Engineering Magnet Faculty.
Within the nationwide rating, Rangel ends the High 20 checklist and SEM is only some spots away at 22.
The No. 1 highschool within the nation is Thomas Jefferson Excessive Faculty for Science and Expertise in Arlington, Virginia.
The remainder of Texas’ high 10 have been additionally among the many high faculties within the nation:
- Austin ISD’s Liberal Arts and Science Academy: Ranked No. 34 nationally
- Houston ISD’s Carnegie Vanguard Excessive Faculty: Ranked No. 40 nationally
- Dallas ISD’s Decide Barefoot Sanders Regulation Magnet: Ranked No. 48 nationally
- Houston ISD’s DeBakey Excessive Faculty for Well being Professions: Ranked No. 50 nationally
- BASIS San Antonio – Shavano Campus: Ranked No. 77 nationally
- San Antonio ISD’s Younger Ladies’s Management Academy: Ranked No. 78 nationally
- Northside ISD’s Well being Careers Excessive Faculty: Ranked No. 102 nationally
The rankings are decided every year based mostly on six components: school readiness (30%), studying and math proficiency (20%), studying and math efficiency (20%), underserved pupil efficiency (10%), school curriculum breadth (10%), and commencement charges (10%).
Roughly 17,840 excessive faculties throughout the nation have been graded for the rankings, in line with U.S. Information.
