Novi High School Ranked in Top 500 in the Country

is ranked as the 472nd best high school in the country, according to a a list of the top 1,000 schools in the nation released by Newsweek yesterday.

Newsweek calculated the best schools using six criteria. Here's how the total score breaks down:

• 25 percent: Four-year graduation rate
• 25 percent: College acceptance rate
• 25 percent: Number of AP and other high-level exams given per student
• 10 percent: Average SAT/ACT scores
• 10 percent: AP/college-level test scores
• 5 percent: Number of AP courses offered per student

Novi was given a score of 0.48 with the following criteria.

The number of AP courses offered per student was not presented on the Newsweek article.

Newsweek has been ranking the top schools for more than a decade and gets the data from adminstrators who return its surveys.