Rosemount Senior High School Makes Newsweek's Top 500

Rosemount Senior High School has made Newsweek's 2016 list of top 500 public high schools in the U.S.

Last year, ten Minnesota high schools made Newsweek's top 500, but Rosemount did not make the cut. This year, Newsweek ranked Rosemount at 427 .

So, how did Newsweek come up with the rankings?

Newsweek looked at six measurements and weighted them to achieve a "college readiness index." The rankings show how well high schools prepare students for college.

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

Beating the odds

Rosemount was placed at 412 on the "beating the odds" list of schools. For the "beating the odds" rankings, a school’s college readiness scores were adjusted for how they compared against other schools with similar percentages of students eligible for free or reduced lunch.

In total, 17 Minnesota high schools made Newsweek’s top 500 this year.

View the entire list of Minnesota schools here.