On April 23, US News will announce the year 2024 Best high schools ranking that will include searchable profiles on nearly 25,000 public high schools.

Among them, nearly 18,000 eligible schools will be ranked using six indicators. Students ranked highest with students who excelled above expectations on state assessments, took and passed a diverse array of college-level exams, and graduated in high numbers.

The six measures and weights that determined each school’s ranking for 2024 will be the same as those used in previous years. RTI Internationalone of the world’s leading research institutes, worked with US News to implement a rating methodology that uses value-added indicators that reflect how well high schools serve all students, not just those who plan to go. College.

This will be the first release in years that US News has had access to the most recent statewide rating data. Adjustments have been made in the latest editions to reflect the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on testing in 2020-2021. In this edition, schools in nearly every state were ranked using 2021-2022 data on their test scores, graduation rates and college readiness. This was again measured by participation and performance in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses.

Schools that lacked usable assessment data available from their state education agencies—often due to the state’s suppression of certain state assessment results at the school—were not rated. Schools too new to have a 12th grade class that served a specific specialized population or were private schools were also not rated.

In addition to the main national rankings, US News will publish separate numerical rankings for all high schools by state, county and metropolitan region. The Best High Schools for STEM will again be a national ranking of the top 250 schools with students who excelled on AP science and math tests.

The detailed methodology will be published after the publication of the rankings on April 23. It will contain a table indicating the assessment year on which the individual state assessment indicators were based.

US News also publishes profiles of each school to give parents access to the latest information about schools of interest. The information contained in these profiles—including enrollment, ethnic diversity, Title I status, and address—reflects the U.S. Department of Education’s most recent Common Core data for 2022-2023.