Dallas ISD’s The School for the Talented and Gifted is standing tall as one of the 10 best high schools in America, according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2026-2027 Best High Schools rankings. And three more DISD schools join it in the top 50 nationwide.
Each year, U.S. News evaluates approximately 27,000 public high schools on six factors: college readiness, college curriculum breadth, state assessment proficiency, state assessment performance, underserved student performance, and graduation rates.
The highest ranking public schools provide the best educational environments where “students demonstrated outstanding outcomes above expectations in math, reading and science state assessments, earned qualifying scores on an array of college-level exams, and graduated in high proportions.”…