Five prestigious Dallas-area high schools are living up to their reputations for top-tier education after being ranked among the best high schools in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report’s just-released annual rankings.
Three high schools in Dallas Independent School District – The School for the Talented and Gifted, Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School, and the School of Science and Engineering – also clocked in as the top three best high schools in Texas.
U.S. News annually evaluates about 24,000 public high schools on six factors: college readiness, college curriculum breadth, state assessment proficiency, state assessment performance, underserved student performance, and graduation rates. New for this year’s batch of rankings, U.S. News discontinued its list of top magnet schools, citing a lack of new data from source Common Core of Data. The national best STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and charter schools rankings were unaffected…