Colorado has 9 of Top 500 High Schools Nationwide

Newsweek

These are challenging times for secondary education. Cash-strapped school districts are cutting back; No Child Left Behind mandates test results; parents and students stress unabated. NEWSWEEK, which has been ranking the top public high schools in America for more than a decade, revamped its methodology this year in hopes of highlighting solutions. We enlisted a panel of experts—Wendy Kopp of Teach For America, Tom Vander Ark of Open Education Solutions (formerly executive director for education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), and Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford professor of education and founder of the School Redesign Network—to develop a yardstick that fully reflects a school’s success turning out college-ready (and life-ready) students. To this end, each school’s score is comprised of six components: graduation rate (25%), college matriculation rate (25%), AP tests taken per graduate (25%), average SAT/ACT scores (10%), average AP/IB/AICE scores (10%), and AP courses offered (5%).

America's Best High Schools 2011

Rank Out of Top 500

29 Peak to Peak Charter Lafayette, CO
130 The Vanguard School at Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy Colorado Springs CO
212 Fairview Boulder CO
285 Rampart Colorado Springs CO
304 Monarch Louisville CO
403 Rock Canyon Highlands Ranch CO
419 Lyons Lyons CO
434 Conifer Conifer CO
483 Heritage Littleton CO