Walter Panas High in Top 200 in NY: New Rankings

Editor's Note: we bring this previously published article back in case you missed it.

Walter Panas High School got a Silver Medal from US News and World Report in its new list of the nation's high schools.

SEE: 25 Best Hudson Valley High Schools: U.S. News Rankings 2016

Ranked No. 120 among New York state's high schools, the Lakeland district school received a National Ranking of 1,207. It scored 39.2 out of 100 on the College Readiness Index, as the magazine pointed out that students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement® coursework and exams. The AP® participation rate at Walter Panas High School is 51 percent.

Here are the local high schools in US News and World Report's ranking of top 200 New York high schools:

10 Rye High School, Rye

20 Edgemont Junior- Senior High School, Scarsdale

27 Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua

29 Pleasantville High School, Pleasantville

30 Byram Hills High School, Armonk

31 Rye Neck Senior High School, Mamaroneck, Rye Brook

32 Blind Brook High School, Rye Brook

33 Hastings High School, Hastings-on-Hudson

35 Irvington High School, Irvington

43 Croton-Harmon High School, Croton-on-Hudson

44 Briarcliff High School, Briarcliff Manor

46 Harrison High School, Harrison

47 John Jay High School, Cross River

48 Mamaroneck High School, Mamaroneck

49 Fox Lane High School, Bedford

51 Ardsley High School, Ardsley

56 Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham

60 North Salem Middle School/ High School, North Salem

63 Scarsdale Senior High School, Scarsdale

79 Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights

86 Pearl River High School, Pearl River

88 Tuckahoe High School, Eastchester

90 Sleepy Hollow High School, Sleepy Hollow

92 Rhinebeck Senior High School, Rhinebeck

96 Spackenkill High School, Poughkeepsie

113 Pawling High School, Pawling

120 Walter Panas High School, Cortlandt Manor

131 Clarkstown North Senior High School, New City

137 Red Hook Senior High School, Red Hook

142 Clarkstown South Senior High School, West Nyack

146 Carmel High School, Carmel

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