North Penn High School (NPHS) has once again been named as one of the top public high schools in the nation by the U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools Rankings coming in at number 1,407 nationally and number 50 in the state of Pennsylvania.
Scoring a 91.84 out of 100, these rankings land NPHS in the top nine percent in the national rankings and the top eight percent in Pennsylvania. Schools are ranked on their performance on state-required tests, graduation and how well they prepare students for college.
"I'm extremely proud of this recognition. Being named as one of U.S. News & World Report's Best High Schools is a true honor," said NPHS Principal Pete Nicholson. "It is another achievement that reflects the quality of our district's teachers, staff members, students and parents. It also shows the commitment and investment that the North Penn community has put into a quality North Penn education from kindergarten through 12th grade."
In coordination with North Carolina-based RTI International, a global nonprofit social science research firm, U.S. News ranked 17,245 public high schools out of more than 23,000 reviewed. This is the count of public high schools that had a 12th grade enrollment of 15 or greater, or otherwise had sufficient enrollment in other high school grades during the 2016-2017 school year to be analyzed. It is six to seven times larger than the more than 2,700 ranked schools in the 2018 edition.
With the revamped methodology, most schools' ranks changed significantly between 2018 and 2019 because of the broader competition in terms of the number of schools being newly ranked - more than 14,500. Consequently, a school's rise or fall in the 2019 rankings does not necessarily reflect a difference in its underlying data. Since the methodology changed so significantly this year, a school's ranking in the 2019 Best High Schools ranking can't be compared with its rankings in any previous U.S. News ranking.
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