23 Hudson Valley High Schools Make Washington Post 'Most Challenging' List

The Washington Post recently released its list of America’s Most Challenging High Schools, and three Hudson Valley high schools were ranked in the top 300.

A little more than 2,300 high schools nationwide achieved an index score of 1 or higher.

The score was achieved by examining for the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Cambridge tests given at a particular school every year and that was divided by the number of seniors who graduated.

A score of 1 means the school had as many tests in 2015 as it had graduates.

For more on the methodology, go here.

Nationwide, the top 5 list includes BASIS Oro Valley, in Oro Valley, Arizona, at No. 1; BASIS Flagstaff, in Flagstaff, Arizona, No. 2; Science/Engineering Magnet, in Dallas, Texas, No. 3; Energized for STEM, in Houston, Texas, No. 4, and BASIS Tucson North, in Tucson, Arizona, No. 5.

In the top 300 nationwide, the Hudson Valley is represented by Harrison High School, in Harrison, No. 207; Rye High School, in Rye, No. 264 and Bronxville High School, in Bronxville, No. 284.

See the complete national list here.

Statewide, out of 117 high schools that made the list, there were 23 from the Hudson Valley that were deemed "most challenging."

Clicking on the high school’s name will call up a page that has the school’s prior rankings and other statistics including the percentage of subsidized school lunches, ethnic breakdown of students and the number of years experience the principal has.

The complete list of Hudson Valley schools is as follows:

• 13 Harrison High School, Harrison
• 18 Rye High School, Rye
• 20 Bronxville High School, Bronxville
• 26 Dobbs Ferry High School, Dobbs Ferry
• 27 Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham
• 33 Edgemont High School, Scarsdale
• 36 Valley Stream South High School, Valley Stream
• 39 Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua
• 41 Pleasantville High School, Pleasantville
• 44 Briarcliff High School, Briarcliff Manor
• 48 Hastings High School, Hastings-on-Hudson
• 49 Mamaroneck High School, Mamaroneck
• 54 Rye Neck High School, Mamaroneck
• 61 Valley Stream Central High School, Valley Stream
• 62 Red Hook High School, Red Hook
• 63 New Paltz Central High School, New Paltz
• 65 Fox Lane High School, Bedford
• 81 Suffern High School, Suffern
• 88 Rhinebeck High School, Rhinebeck
• 99 Clarkstown South High School, West Nyack
• 101 Clarkstown North High School, New City
• 112 Spring Valley High School, Spring Valley
• 117 Highland High School, Highland