Several HV High Schools Rated as Some of the Nation’s Best

U.S. News & World Report and the RTI International, a global nonprofit social science research firm, have released their 2015 Best High School rankings. Both organizations started with 29,070 public high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia (Some of those schools had to be eliminated mainly because they were too small. So, the actual count is 19,753). SEE FULL LIST HERE

A three-step process determined the 2015 Best High Schools. According to US News, the first two steps ensured that the schools serve all of their students well, using their performance on the math and reading parts of their state proficiency tests as the benchmarks. For those schools that made it past the first two steps, a third step assessed the degree to which schools prepare students for college-level work. Read the full comprehensive report in the analytics 

Several Hudson Valley area schools made the list

73)  Blind Brook High School, Rye Brook

81)  Rye High School

212)  Briarcliff High School

215)  Irvington High School 

263)  Pleasantville High School

288)  Rye Neck High School, Mamaroneck 

346)  Ardsley High School 

532)  Spackenkill High School 

New York state's highest overall high school was The High School of American Studies at Lehman Collage in The Bronx, which came in at #11. The School for the Talented and Gifted our of Dallas, TX ranked at number #1.