Westfield High School: 29th Best In Nation, Newsweek Survey Says

Westfield High School was ranked number 29 in the country in Newsweek’s national survey, “America’s Top Schools” 2014 Rankings.

The school was the only open enrollment high school in New Jersey to be ranked this high.

Newsweek describes the rankings as highlighting “schools that do the absolute best job of preparing students for college. This year, our methodology is more stringent than ever with new measures of quality and a higher standard for data.”

The criteria were based on College Readiness, including SAT/ACT and AP/IB scores, student attrition, college graduation and college bound factors. The rates that Newsweek reports for schools are percentiles, relative to the other schools on its list, rather than raw percentages.

“As we have noted before, Westfield High School students’ academic performance has continually been high,” said Margaret Dolan,superintendent of schools. “It’s the ranking methodology of various publications that varies from year to year.”

More on the survey can be found here: http://www.newsweek.com/high-schools/americas-top-schools-2014