Two Huntington Beach Public High Schools Ranked in National Top 500 Survey

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA—It's back to school time in Orange County, and Newsweek has released a list of the top 500 public high schools in the country. Newsweek’s list of the best public high schools in the country shows that 51 California high schools made the list, which ranked the 500 best high schools nationwide. One of those is in the city of Huntington Beach, California.

The top-ranked school in the state was Whitney (Gretchen) High School in Cerritos, which came in seventh nationwide. The school ranked the highest in California for 2015.

Here's a look at all of the California high schools that made Newsweek's list and where they came in on the list. (Click here to view the full list of Newsweek's 500 best.) In Huntington Beach, the following high schools ranked in the nation's top 500 Public High Schools:

• #346 — Huntington Beach High School
• #475 — Marina High School

Congratulations on a job well done. If you are curious what sort of measurements were used, and how much they weighed in the public high schools selected, those measurements and their weight are:

• Holding power: 10 percent
• Ratio of counselor/full-time equivalent to student enrollment: 10 percent
• Weighted SAT/ACT: 17.5 percent
• Weighted AP/IB/dual enrollment composite: 17.5 percent
• Graduation rate: 20 percent
• College enrollment rate: 25 percent

In all, 6,477 of the nation’s 15,819 public high schools met the criteria to be considered in Newsweek’s rankings. Newsweek used school performance data from the National Center for Education Statistics to narrow down the list of schools.

Click here to view the full methodology.
You can view last year’s rankings here.
Shutterstock Image.