This week, six Greenville County excessive faculties had been ranked within the prime 25 finest excessive faculties in South Carolina.
This rating is predicated on U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-2025 Best Public High Schools in South Carolina record.
Key elements resembling faculty readiness, state evaluation capability, and underserved pupil efficiency had been used to find out every highschool’s placement.
Also see rankings of public excessive faculties in Anderson and Spartanburg counties. The solely Greenville County highschool not included within the rating was Fountain Inn High School, which opened in 2021.
Which Greenville County highschool ranks within the prime 25 in South Carolina?
∎ tenth place: Wade Hampton High School
∎ No. 13: Greenville High School Academy
∎ No.19: No. Riverside High School
∎ twentieth place: Eastside High School
∎ No.21: Mauldin High School
∎ twenty third place: JL Man High School
How had been the rankings decided?
U.S. News & World Report collected knowledge from almost 25,000 excessive faculties in 50 states, together with the District of Columbia, to find out every highschool’s rating. This report makes use of the “Best High School Methodology” to deal with her six key areas out of roughly 17,660 faculties:
∎ College Readiness, 30%: Percentage of twelfth grade college students who took a minimum of one AP or IB examination and earned a qualifying rating. Getting a qualifying rating is 3 times extra beneficial than simply getting one.
∎ State Assessment Proficiency, 20%: Total state evaluation rating {that a} pupil should move to graduate.
∎ State evaluation efficiency, 20%: How the combination state evaluation rating compares to US News expectations, given the share of scholars who’re black, Hispanic, and from low-income households.
∎ Underserved Student Performance, 10%: State evaluation scores aggregated just for Black, Hispanic, and college students from low-income households. These scores are in comparison with the state’s typical scores for underserved college students, and parity or higher is the purpose.
∎ College Curriculum Breadth, 10%: Percentage of twelfth grade college students who take AP and IB exams in a number of areas and earn qualifying scores. Up to 4 exams, extra exams are valued greater than fewer exams. Earning a licensed rating on an examination is value 3 times as a lot as taking the examination.
∎ Graduation Rate, 10%: Percentage of scholars getting into ninth grade who graduate after 4 educational years.
Are there every other upstate excessive faculties that make the US News and World Report SC record?
∎ thirtieth place: TL Hanna High School
∎ No. 34: Powderville High School
∎ No. 35: Pendleton High School
∎ No. 37: Spartanburg High School
∎ No. 49: Greenville Technical Charter High School
∎ No.71: High Point Academy
∎ No.73: Legacy Early College
∎ No.83: Anderson Five Charter School
∎ No.96: Berea High School
∎ No.99: Bloom High School
∎ No. 121: Westside High School Early College Academy
∎ No.142: Southside High School
∎ No.157: Carolina Academy High School
∎ No.166: South Carolina Cyber Academy
Top 10 South Carolina excessive faculties ranked by US News & World Report
Academic Magnet High School (North Charleston)Aiken Scholars AcademyCharleston School of the Arts (North Charleston)Palmetto Scholars Academy (North Charleston)Spring Hill High School, ChapinWando High School, Mount PleasantFort Mill High SchoolMayo High School for Match Science and Technology, DarlingtonChapin High SchoolWade Hampton High School, Greenville.
Nina Tran covers trending subjects. Email ntran@gannett.com.