Aug 18, 2026 | 2:51 pm
Austin ISD’s Liberal Arts and Science Academy (LASA) and Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders are standing tall as two of the 100 best high schools in America, according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2026-2027 Best High Schools rankings. And six more Central Texas schools join them in the statewide top 100.
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.”…