Westford Academy Left Off Newsweek's 'Top 500 High Schools' List

Westford Academy was left off Newsweek’s recently published “ America’s Top High Schools 2014.”

The list includes 500 high schools, including 25 from Massachusetts:

• No. 19: Lexington High
• No. 28: Boston Latin
• No. 35: Westborough High
• No. 82: Weston High
• No. 86: Groton Dunstable Regional
• No. 94: Concord-Carlisle High
• No. 106: Medfield Senior High
• No. 107: Hamilton-Wenham Regional High
• No. 125: Marblehead High
• No. 135: Belmont High
• No. 136: Auburn Senior High
• No. 146: Shrewsbury Sr High
• No. 162: Nashoba Regional
• No. 213: Medway High
• No. 222: Norwell High
• No. 246: Chelmsford High
• No. 263: Newton North High
• No. 281: Ipswich High
• No. 285: Minnechaug Regional High
• No. 302: Sandwich High
• No. 318: Millis High School
• No. 338: Stoneham High
• No. 435: Grafton High School
• No. 442: North Reading High
• No. 496: Mansfield High

Newsweek said the rankings were based on standardized test scores, graduation rates, and student-teacher ratios, among other factors.

Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia was ranked No. 1.

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