UC Magnet High School Makes Newsweek's Top 100

The Union County Magnet High School for Science, Mathematics, and Technology has been named to Newsweek's America's Best High Schools list, ranking at 65 of 2,000 ranked in the US. The school was also highlighted in the top 25 schools in the Northeast, ranking at 15.

According to Newsweek, UC Magnet has an average SAT score of 1974, an average ACT score of 29.4, an average AP score of 4.3, a 100 percent graduation rate and a 100 percent college matriculation rate.

The school also ranked high in US New's recent list, at 26 in the state and 375 nationwide, earning the "gold" designation.

Other Scotch Plains schools also made the top 2,000, ranking as follows:

Union County Academy for Allied Health Sciences - 202
Academy for Information Technology - 468
Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School - 918
Union County Academy for Performing Arts - 962

According to Newsweek's website, each school’s score is comprised of six components: graduation rate (25 percent), college matriculation rate (25 percent), AP tests taken per graduate (25 percent), average SAT/ACT scores (10%), average AP/IB/AICE scores (10 percent), and AP courses offered (5 percent).

Newsweek has been compiling this list for more than a decade and has enlisted a panel of experts to help create a formula for calculating the success of a high school.