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Lake Zurich, Stevenson Make Newsweek’s Best High School List
Lake Zurich and Stevenson High Schools were ranked among the best high schools in the nation. Click on the red dots for more details.
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Lake Zurich and Stevenson High Schools made Newsweek’s 2013 Best High School list, which the magazine released Monday.
Stevenson ranked 128, and Lake Zurich ranked 489 among the magazine’s ranking of the best 2,000 public high schools in the nation. Both schools were recently ranked among the best in the state by U.S. News and World Report.
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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 other ranked high schools by clicking on the markers in the interactive map above.
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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.
You can read more about Newsweek's methodology here.
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