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GCS High Schools Ranked by Newsweek/The Daily Beast
The Early College at Guilford earned recognition among the nation's best high schools according to new rankings released by Newsweek and The Daily Beast. The annual list of high schools ranked The Early College at Guilford 21st in the nation. The school also earned the number one ranking among North Carolina high schools and was ranked 14th in the South.
Penn-Griffin School for the Arts and Weaver Academy were both ranked among the top 10 schools in North Carolina, coming in at 281st and 311th respectively in the national rankings.
In total, 20 Guilford County schools were included in the America's Best High Schools list. The list includes the 2,000 best public high schools in the nation. Guilford County high schools accounted for more than a quarter (27 percent) of the North Carolina schools on the list.
The rankings are based on graduation rate (25 percent), college acceptance rate (25 percent), AP, IB and college-level exams taken per student (25 percent), average SAT/ACT scores (10 percent), average AP, IB and college-level exam scores (10 percent), and percent of students enrolled in at least one AP or IB course (5 percent).
U.S. Rank |
N.C. Rank |
School |
Newsweek Score |
21 |
1 |
The Early College at Guilford |
3.92 |
281 |
8 |
Penn-Griffin School for the Arts |
3.35 |
311 |
9 |
Weaver Academy |
3.33 |
526 |
14 |
Northwest High |
3.21 |
671 |
18 |
Northern High |
3.15 |
991 |
22 |
Grimsley High |
3.02 |
1,168 |
27 |
Southeast High |
2.94 |
1,291 |
30 |
Southwest High |
2.87 |
1,393 |
35 |
Page High |
2.83 |
1,473 |
40 |
Ragsdale High |
2.79 |
1,491 |
43 |
Greensboro College Middle College |
2.78 |
1,508 |
44 |
The Academy at Smith |
2.77 |
1,546 |
45 |
The Middle College at GTCC-Greensboro |
2.75 |
1,594 |
50 |
Western High |
2.72 |
1,724 |
54 |
The Academy at Central |
2.64 |
1,783 |
57 |
The Middle College at N.C. A&T |
2.58 |
1,866 |
63 |
Northeast High |
2.51 |
1,916 |
65 |
The Middle College at Bennett |
2.47 |
1,949 |
69 |
The Middle College GTCC-Jamestown |
2.45 |
1,981 |
71 |
Eastern High |
2.42 |