8 area high schools make 'best' list

From the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, Wednesday, May. 23 2007
By Harry Levins

Eight public high schools in the St. Louis area crop up on Newsweek magazine's list of the best public high schools in the nation.

In all, Newsweek cites 1,257 public high schools as the best. The local schools, by ranking, are:

139: Metro Academic and Classical, in St. Louis.

263: Ladue-Horton Watkins.

321: Clayton.

601: Lafayette, in Wildwood.

625: Marquette, in Chesterfield

675: Rockwood Summit, in Fenton.

705: Eureka.

759: Lindbergh, in south St. Louis County.

The list includes two other high schools in Missouri -- Kansas City's Park Hill (No. 541) and Columbia's Hickman (No. 1,252).

No schools from the Metro East area made the list.

Newsweek compiled its list by listing the number of Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate tests taken by seniors last year, divided by the number of graduating seniors.

The 1,257 schools finished in the top 5 per cent of more than 25,000 public high schools across America.