Annual Study Ranks America’s Best High Schools
In its annual ranking of schools, U.S. News & World Report magazine has named the best schools in the nation. Ten of the 12 comprehensive high schools in the Sweetwater District were named medal winners, placing them among the top 13 percent of nearly 20,000 eligible schools in the U.S.
Schools were also ranked within each state. The ten Sweetwater Schools that received rankings were among the top 20 percent of California schools.
The Sweetwater Schools ranked were:
- Olympian High (#154 in CA and #965 in the U.S.)
- Eastlake High (#209 in CA and #1,215 in the U.S.)
- Otay Ranch High (#237 in CA and # 1,343 in the U.S.)
- Castle Park High (#343 in CA and #1,848 in the U.S.)
- Bonita Vista High (#366 in CA and #1,937 in the U.S.)
- Chula Vista High (#377 in CA and #1,985 in the U.S.)
- Sweetwater High (#395 in CA and #2,065 in the U.S.)
- Montgomery High (#457 in CA and #2,381 in the U.S.)
- San Ysidro High (#461 in CA and #2,405 in the U.S.), and
- Hilltop High (#468 in CA and #2,453 in the U.S.)
Rankings by U.S. News & World Report were done in partnership with the North Carolina-based RTI International, a global nonprofit social science research firm.
RTI implemented U.S. News’s comprehensive rankings methodology, which is based on the key principles that a great high school must serve all of its students well, not just those who are college-bound, and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show the school is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators.