Colleges and high schools across the county receive an annual ranking from U.S. News & World Report. For the past five years, so have elementary and middle schools. And some Chattahoochee Valley schools rank among the best, and some ranked among the worst, in Georgia and Alabama for 2027.
School rankings are based on student performance on math and reading/language arts state assessments, a U.S. News & World Report news release says. The ranking formula considers average scores and test results in the context of a school’s socioeconomic characteristics.
To be ranked, a school must have more than 20 students enrolled in the federal government dataset, have state assessment results in mathematics and reading/language arts, have the student ethnicity and economically disadvantaged data used in U.S. News’ statistical models and keep its elementary or middle school designation for the following year, the news release says…