Princeton High School Is 1 Of America's Best, US News Says

PRINCETON, NJ — Princeton High School is among the top 10 high schools in New Jersey and among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report's 2018 rankings of best high schools in the country.

Princeton is ninth in the state and No. 230 in the country in the 2018 best high school rankings that were released on Wednesday. The rankings evaluate over 20,500 public high schools. U.S. News identified schools that best serve all students and assessed how prepared students are for college-level work.

Schools are also recognized with gold, silver and bronze medals with gold indicating the greatest level of college readiness. Princeton was recognized with a gold medal.

“Students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement coursework and exams,” U.S. News wrote in its assessment of the high school. “The AP participation rate at Princeton High School is 76 percent. The student body makeup is 53 percent male and 47 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 40 percent.”

Ninety-two percent of students who take the AP test pass. The school’s College Readiness Index is over 71 percent, and its reading proficiency is 71 percent. Mathematics proficiency is at 48 percent. The school’s total enrollment is listed at 1,578 students, and the student to teacher ratio is 13:1. It has a 95 percent graduation rate.

To see the full list of the top New Jersey high schools in the country, click here.

To determine the rankings, U.S. News teamed up with the social science research firm RTI International. A variety of data sources, including the Common Core of Data, College Board and the International Baccalaureate, were used.

A four-step process was used to rank all eligible schools. The first two steps were to determine whether students were performing better than statistically expected in the state and whether minority were performing at or better than the state average for minority students, which was the second step. The third step required schools to meet or surpass a certain graduation benchmark and the final step was to determine college readiness. (You can read the full methodology here.)

Click here to see the full rankings and for more insight on the data.

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