SchoolTwo Northshore School District high schools, Woodinville and Inglemoor, were awarded silver and bronze medal rankings, respectively, in US News and World Report’s annual rankings of the top high schools in the country in its January issue.
Woodinville was one of 12 high schools in Washington to receive silver honors.
Inglemoor was one of 30 high schools in the state to receive bronze honors.
The magazine, for many years a leading news weekly competing with Time and Newsweek, is now published monthly and is well known for its ranking system of American colleges and hospitals, as well as its conservative editorial bent. In 2007, US News published its list of the nation’s best high schools for the first time. Its ranking methodology includes state test scores, the success of poor and minority students on those exams, and the schools’ performance in Advanced Placement tests to determine college-readiness.
More than 21,000 public and private high schools were analyzed based on data from the 2006-2007 school year.
According to data developed by School Evaluation Services, a K-12 education data research group, the top 100 high schools in the nation were awarded gold medal rankings. The next 504 top-performing high schools earned silver medals. An additional 1321 high schools were awarded bronze medals.
Four Washington state high schools earned gold medal status, according to the data.
The International School (Bellevue) ranked 14th nationally; the International Community School (Kirkland) ranked 24th; Bellevue High School ranked 78th and Newport High School (Bellevue) ranked 85th.
King County schools earning silver medal status along with Woodinville were Garfield, Interlake, Mercer Island, Redmond and Roosevelt.
Joining Inglemoor in the bronze category from King County were Mount Rainier and Vashon high schools.
The No. 1 high school in the country, according to US News, is Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, located in Alexandria, Va., which posted a perfect score of 100 percent for college-readiness in the survey.
