Newsweek Gives 9 County Schools High Ranking

Newsweek has named nine public high schools in Allegheny County as among the top 6 percent of high schools nationwide.

The annual list of schools, with their rank, includes Upper St. Clair, 905; Quaker Valley, 994; Pine-Richland, 1,020; Hampton, 1,183; North Hills, 1,331; Pittsburgh Allderdice, 1,538; South Fayette, 1,543; North Allegheny, 1,556; and Mt. Lebanon, 1,564.

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Newsweek Ranks Us As 1,181

Newsweek magazine has included six Allegheny County high schools on its list of the 1,500 top U.S. public high schools.

The school districts and their ranks are: Pine-Richland, 814; Upper St. Clair, 917; Quaker Valley, 1,163; Mt. Lebanon, 1,181; North Hills, 1,317; and North Allegheny, 1,326.

The rankings are based on a "challenge index" which takes the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or Cambridge tests given at a school in May and divides that by the number of seniors graduating in May or June. Schools with a ratio of at least 1.0 are included on the list. By this measurement, these are in the top 6 percent of public high schools nationwide.

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