Local High Schools Ranked Among the Best in the State

Walnut Valley Unified high schools are making the grade statewide and nationally.

Diamond Bar High School is ranked 61st on the U.S. News and World Report's list of the best high schools in California.  The school is ranked 316th in the United States, according to usnews.com.   

Walnut High School is ranked 65^th  in the state and 348th nationally. Both schools earned the gold award.

Diamond Bar High has an API score of 876, higher than the state average.  The rate of college readiness is 52.5 percent, above the California average.  Of the 59 percent who took the AP test, 50 percent passed.  The campus has a student-to-teacher ratio of 26 to 1.

Walnut High has an API score of 881, which is above the state average.  The rate of college readiness is 51.1 percent, also high that the average in California.  Of the 56 percent who took advance placement tests, 49 percent passed, according to the data.   The campus has a student-to-teacher ration of 26 to 1.

Diamond Ranch High School, in the Pomona Unified School District, also made the list, earning a silver award.

The campus is ranked 258^th in the state and 1,257^th nationally.  Diamond Ranch High has an API score of 809.  The rate of college readiness is 27 percent and the AP participation rate is 42 percent, according to the data.   The student-to-teacher ration is 28.1.

U.S. News reviewed 21,776 high schools nationwide, with 577 in California earning a ranking.  Schools must get a gold or silver medal to be ranked.

Of those ranked in California, 97 earned gold medals, 301 silver, and 179 bronze, according to the publication’s website.