U.S. News & World Report have published their rankings of the best high schools in the country, and South Florida made sure to represent.
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Half of the top 10 schools in the state of Florida can be found in Miami-Dade, and Broward is not far behind. And seven schools across both counties broke the top 100 in the U.S.
The report looked at college readiness, curriculum breadth, graduation rate, and state assessment proficiency and performance to decide where schools ranked.
Take a look at the schools standing out.
Florida
You can find the best high school in the Sunshine State—Pine View School—in Osprey, Florida, just about 11 miles south of Sarasota. It’s an application-based school for intellectually gifted students.
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But South Florida students don’t have to move to Sarasota for a great education. The second-best public school in the state can be found in Miami-Dade, at The Marine Academy of Science and Technology (MAST@FIU). According to its website, it’s “the only public high school in Florida that enjoys a collaborative partnership with a public university.”
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
In Miami-Dade County, magnet schools and charter schools dominated the top 10. Six schools even made it into the top 100 in the U.S.
Broward County Public Schools
Broward County may not have made the top 10 schools in the state, but it’s not far behind with Millennium 6-12 Collegiate Academy in Tamarac at no. 11. It is also the only school in Broward that made the top 100 in the U.S.
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