Summit High School Named No. 461 On Newsweek's National List

Summit High School landed at No. 461 on Newsweek's list of America's Best High Schools, released Monday morning, May 6. The list encompassed the top 2,000 high schools in the nation.

Summit's score was 3.25. The highest ranked high school, Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky, scored a 4.84, and the lowest score on the list was 2.4.

The list names the top high schools for producing graduates ready for college, and is based on graduation rate, college acceptance rate, and AP/IB/AICE tests taken per student, which all account for 25 percent of a school's rating.

Average SAT/ACT scores account for another 10 percent, average AP/IB/AICE scores accounts for 10 percent and percent of students enrolled in at least one AP/IB/AICE course accounts for the final 5 percent.

Summit has a 96 percent graduation rate, a 94 percent college acceptance rate, an AP/IB testing rate of 0.6, an average SAT score of 1,690, an average ACT score of 24.9, and an average AP score of 3.6

The complete rankings, with a full explanation of methodology, can be found here.