Marblehead High Among Top 150 High Schools in U.S.

MARBLEHEAD, MA — Just in time for the start of the school year, Newsweek released its annual list Thursday of the top public high schools in America in 2016, and Marblehead High School has made the list.

Marblehead High was ranked No. 143 in the country.

According to Newsweek's research, 81 percent of MHS students are college-ready and 92 percent of its graduates are college-bound. LHS was not listed in 2015's rankings.

Newsweek’s rankings of the best public high schools in the country stand apart when it comes to lists. Here's the full list.

These school rankings are borne of legitimate research. Newsweek, along with the analytics firm Westat, uses verified and objective measurements to put together its annual ranking of the country’s best high schools.

See also: How All Massachusetts Schools Ranked

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