Weston High Fails to Make Newsweek's Top-Rated Schools List

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Newsweek has ranked the high schools nationally, but the criteria it used leaves Weston High School off of the list.

This, in spite of Weston High's No. 1 ranking in Boston Magazine's 2012 list of the top 20 high schools in Boston and the Boston suburbs.

Weston High School also failed to rank in US News' top 500 high schools nationally.

For its rankings, Newsweek sent out a survey to more than 5,000 high schools in the U.S., with about 2,500 schools responding in 2013. You can see the details about the ranking, and every other ranked high school by clicking on the markers in the interactive map above.

The survey scores were then weighted and calculated using several criteria including on-time graduation and college acceptance rates. In addition, instead of averaging the number of courses offered, this year Newsweek considered the percentage of students enrolled in AP, IB or Advance International Certificate courses. The final scores then determined Newsweek’s final rankings.

The highest-ranked school in Massachusetts, according to the Newsweek list, is Boston Latin School, coming in at #114 nationally. Next on the list is #140-ranked Dover-Sherborn High School. Newton North High School cracked the top 1,000 schools, listed at 982nd place.

You can read more about Newsweek's methodology here.