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The performance data was obtained from the Illinois State Board of Education for the 2024–25 school year, the most recent available. Calculations were done by the research nonprofit RTI International, ...

1. Whitney M. Young Magnet High School (S) — Near West Side Long heralded as one of the most diverse schools in the state and one of the most selective of the city’s selective enrollment high schools, ...

U.S. News & World Report released its 2026-27 rankings of the nation's best high schools, with several New York schools earning top spots in the national rankings. The annual rankings evaluated nearly ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Several Austin-area high schools are among the nation's highest-ranked public schools in the new 2026-27 U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools rankings. Liberal Arts and Science ...

Five Rhode Island schools ranked among the best public high schools in the country in the US News & World Report’s annual rankings. Classical High School in Providence is the highest ranked Rhode ...

The cream of California’s academic crop has been crowned — with SoCal schools cleaning up. Southern California STEM powerhouses, dual-enrollment standouts and ultra-selective public academies dominate ...

U.S. News & World Report's 2026-27 Public High School Rankings were released Aug. 18, and a Middle Tennessee school, Central Magnet School in Murfreesboro, took the No. 1 spot in the national rankings ...

Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Maryland have the highest concentrations of top-performing public high schools in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2026-2027 Best High Schools ...

DALLAS — Several Dallas-Fort Worth-area schools are among the nation's highest-ranked public schools in the new 2026-2027 U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools rankings. Dallas ISD's The School ...