Newsweek Names Harriton Best High School in State

Newsweek is out with its annual ranking of the “Best High Schools in America,” this year with a new methodology—dispensing with its past practice of one metric (AP tests taken, per graduate) and developing instead “a yardstick that fully reflects a school’s success turning out college-ready (and life-ready) students.”

AP tests taken, scores and courses offered factor heavily, but they are among the new rankings’ six criteria. At No. 123,  is the magazine’s top-rated Pennsylvania high school, with a 99 percent graduation rate, 97 percent of its students college-bound, and an average SAT score of 1717.

Lower Merion High School clocks in at No.  224 with fairly similar stats.  Other Main Line high schools to make the list are Radnor (No. 146), Haverford (No. 466), and Great Valley (Malvern, No. 346). The rankings come two weeks after , which also included Harriton and Lower Merion.