Newsweek Names Los Altos High as #132 High School in USA

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Newsweek has ranked Los Altos High School as the #132 high school in the country.

Mountain View High School ranked #229, the second in the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District to make the rankings. The two were in  the top of several high schools attended by Los Altos and Los Altos Hills residents to fare well in the annual rankings.

Also ranking highly were Gunn High School, at #583 and Homestead High School ranking at #764.

Elsewhere in the Fremont Union High School District, Monta Vista ranked #103, Lynbrook High rated #122. Cupertino High School was ranked #681. Fremont High School ranked #1,942. In the Palo Alto Unified School District, Palo Alto High School ranked #161.

For its rankings, Newsweek sent out a survey to more than 5,000 high schools in the U.S., with about 2,500 schools responding in 2013. You can see the details about the rankings for Los Altos, Mountain View, Gunn and Homestead high schools, and every other ranked high school by clicking on the markers in the interactive map above.

The survey scores were then weighted and calculated using several criteria including on-time graduation and college acceptance rates. In addition, instead of averaging the number of courses offered, this year Newsweek considered the percentage of students enrolled in AP, IB or Advance International Certificate courses. The final scores then determined Newsweek’s final rankings.

You can read more about Newsweek's methodology here.

For the full list of schools see it here on partner site, The Daily Beast.

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• Why Paly and Gunn Didn't Make the U.S. News Ranking
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