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Melrose High Makes Newsweek's Top-Rated School List

The magazine's 2013 rankings came out Monday.

Newsweek has ranked the top 2,000 high schools nationally and Melrose High School made the list, coming in at #1,113. 

Also making the list was Mystic Valley Regional Charter school, which came in at #163.

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Melrose High made the Newsweek list in 2012, ranking #832, while Mystic Valley placed 122nd. Melrose High finished . However, Melrose did not make the magazine's top 500 list in 2011

While Melrose High made the Newsweek list this year, it did not make the top 500 nationally by US News. However, Mystic Valley did, coming in at #8.

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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 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.


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