In past years, schools of choice have regularly risen to the top of the magazine’s rankings. Of those schools represented in this year’s top 10, three hail from Texas - School for the Talented and Gifted, Carnegie Vanguard High School, and School of Science and Engineering - and one from Virginia: The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Selective public schools, many of them magnets, continue to dominate the rankings of the 22,000 public high schools from which U.S. VIDEO: 74 Explains - What’s a Charter School? 2 school on the LA Unified list is Magnolia Science Academy, which ranked 14th statewide. Six of those are Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, and the No. Nationwide, there are now around 6,800 charter schools serving nearly 3 million students.Īmong the top 10 California high schools, only one was in Los Angeles Unified, the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (LACES).Īmong the top 20 LA Unified high schools on the list, 12 are charters. In 2016, three charters made the list’s top 10 in 2015, two charters made the cut.

This year’s charter breakthrough builds on gains from previous years. Rounding out the top tier are Arizona’s BASIS Peoria and BASIS Chandler schools (ranking #5 and #7 respectively) and California’s Pacific Collegiate Charter in Santa Cruz (#10). News and World Report has released its 2017 rankings of America’s public high schools, and for the first time ever, the majority of the schools in the top 10 are charters.īASIS Scottsdale, BASIS Tucson North, and BASIS Oro Valley - all Arizona public charter schools in the BASIS network - placed one, two, and three atop the 2017 list.

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