Infographic: 2014 Best High Schools

Have a Glance which states have more high schools with Gold Medals and etc..

The 2014 U.S. News Best High faculties rankings, free these days, feature data on quite nineteen,eligible faculties. Highschool performance has been below the spotlight recently, because the Obama administration declared awards earlier this month totaling quite $100 million to assist faculties prepare students for in-demand careers in fields together with health care, technology and engineering.

The data show that receiving a medallion is actually a rarity among the general public high faculties that U.S. News evaluated for this ranking. Only 2.8 p.c of eligible faculties received a medallion. That variety represents the highest five hundred faculties and is calculated employing a combination of state assessments and school readiness scores. Silver medals were awarded to merely eight.6 p.c of eligible faculties.

The School for the proficient and precocious in urban center excelled, earning a medallion along side prime honors within the overall national rankings also because the Best Magnet faculties rankings.

In general, states on the geographical region outperformed the remainder of the country in winning gold medals. Connecticut had the very best proportion of medallion faculties of any state within the country, with nine p.c of eligible faculties earning the highest award.

Enrollment at medallion faculties ranged from fewer than a hundred students to quite five,000. 5 medallion faculties tied for a student-teacher magnitude relation of 10-to-1 all-time low among medallion winners.

The graphic below illustrates these figures and additional information from the 2014 Best High faculties rankings. cross-check the complete rankings for additional data on individual states, districts and faculties. you'll be able to additionally follow the highschool Notes diary for the most recent news and data for fogeys regarding yankee highschool education.