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100 Best High Schools In America Ranked
Three Schools From Virginia Make Top 100
POSTED: 10:30 am CST November 30,
2007
UPDATED: 4:52 pm CST November 30,
2007
WASHINGTON -- U.S. News & World Report says America's best high school is in Virginia, one of three to make it in the magazine's top 100.The magazine's first-ever high school rankings give the top honor to Fairfax County's elite Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.Using K-12 data research and analysis business run by Standard & Poor's, the magazine put high schools in 40 states through a three-step analysis. U.S. News and World measured how each school's students performed on state tests, adjusting for student circumstances. Then it evaluated how well each school's disadvantaged students did. Lastly, they looked at whether the school was successful in providing college-level coursework.
The magazine's analysis considered more than 18,500 high schools in 40 states. The report will be on the magazine's Web site today, and printed in its Dec. 10 edition.
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