GCS High Schools Ranked by The Washington Post

Penn-Griffin School for the Arts earned recognition among the nation's top 50 high schools according to new rankings released by The Washington Post. The school earned the number one ranking among North Carolina high schools and was ranked 41st in the nation.

Grimsley High also found itself near the top of the North Carolina rankings. It ranked sixth in the state and came in at 202nd in the national rankings. Weaver Academy and Page High also ranked among the top 10 schools in North Carolina. The Early College at Guilford was named by The Washington Post as one of the country's top-performing schools with elite students . The schools in this category were not included in the rankings.

A total of 16 Guilford County schools (GCS) were included in The Washington Post's America's Most Challenging High Schools list, which uses the Challenge Index to rank high schools. This formula is a measure of the number of Advanced Placement (AP), International Baccalaureate (IB) or Advanced International Certificate of Education given in a school divided by the number of graduating seniors. The annual list includes only schools that have an index of at least 1.000, which means students within a school took as many placement exams in a year as the school had graduates. About 9 percent of the approximately 22,000 public high schools in the United States made the list.

America's Most Challenging High Schools List