America's Best High Schools: The Top 100 (Massachusetts to Washington)

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26 Dec 2006 06:56 AM

Is your child slated to go to one of the top 100 high schools? Here is the second half of a list I've started in a previous blog. What makes them the best of the best is that they have the highest porportion of students taking either Advanced Placement exams or International Bacclaureate exams.

Massachusetts

#82 Boston Latin Boston

Maryland

#15 Richard Montgomery Rockville

#34 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Bethesda

#51 Wootton Rockville

#75 Churchill Potomac

Michigan

#9 International Academy Bloomfield Hills

#55 Black River Holland

Missouri

#40 Metro Academic & Classical St. Louis

New Jersey

#83 McNair Academic Jersey City

New York

#4 City Honors Buffalo

#23 John Miller-Great Neck North Great Neck #24 Wilson Magnet Rochester

#27 Jericho Jericho

#31 Great Neck South Great Neck

#32 South Side Rockville Centre #35 Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor #42 Rye Rye #56 Edgemont Scarsdale #58 Pittsford Mendon Pittsford

#61 Pittsford Sutherland Pittsford #62 Greeley Chappaqua

#69 Manhasset Manhasset

#89 Blind Brook Rye Brook #93 Brighton Rochester

#95 Briarcliff Briarcliff Manor #97 Vandermeulen Port Jefferson

North Carolina

#16 Myers Park Charlotte

#53 Raleigh Charter Raleigh

#59 Enloe Raleigh

#66 Harding University Charlotte

#94 North Mecklenburg Huntersville

Ohio

#65 Walnut Hills Cincinnati

#68 Indian Hill Cincinnati

#98 Chagrin Falls Chagrin Falls

#100 Wyoming Wyoming

Oklahoma

#17 Classen School of Oklahoma City Advanced Studies #84 Booker T. Washington Tulsa

Pennsylvania

#74 Masterman Philadelphia

South Carolina

#10 Academic Magnet North Charleston

#36 Southside Greenville

Tennesee

#39 Martin Luther King Nashville

#43 Hume-Fogg Academic Nashville

Texas

#1 Talented & Gifted Dallas

#8 Science/Engineering Magnet Dallas

#11 Science Academy of Mercedes South Texas

#12 North Hills School Irving #18 Highland Park Dallas

#64 Communication Arts San Antonio #88 YES College Prep Southeast Houston

#92 South Texas High School Mercedes for Health Professions

#96 Diamond Hill-Jarvis Fort Worth

Virginia

#13 H-B Woodlawn Arlington

#19 Clarke County Berryville

#41 George Mason Falls Church #47 Yorktown Arlington

#52 Washington-Lee Arlington

#81 Langley McLean #87 Warwick Newport News

#86 McLean McLean #91 W. T. Woodson Fairfax

#99 Centreville Clifton

Washington

#37 Newport Bellevue

#44 Interlake Bellevue

#49 Bellevue Bellevue

#57 International School Bellevue

So there you have it, the last part of the top 100 high schools in America. It is interesting to note that while the editors who compiled this list feel that these high schools take seriously the challenge to prepare young students for college and beyond, there are a group of up and coming 'non-traditional' schools that are seeing results too. We'll take a look at some of these new alternatives to traditional high school and see how they're changing American education.

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