U.S. News & World Report today announced its ‘2023-2024 Best High Schools’ rankings. The rankings evaluate nearly 18,000 public high schools at the national, state and local level. According to U.S. News & World Report, “This year’s rankings showcase the schools whose students demonstrate outstanding outcomes, surpassing the anticipated benchmarks, including achieving high graduation rates.” The top 20 ranked public high schools in Maryland can be seen below:
1. Poolesville High School (Poolesville, MD)
2. Eastern Technical High School (Baltimore, MD)
3. Walt Whitman High School (Bethesda, MD)
4. Thomas S. Wootton High School (Rockville, MD)
5. Winston Churchill High School (Potomac, MD)
6. Centennial High School (Elliott City, MD)
7. River Hill High School (Clarksville, MD)
8. Baltimore City College (Baltimore, MD)
9. Walter Johnson High School (Bethesda, MD)
10. Marriotts Ridge High School (Marriottsville, MD)
11. Western School of Technology (Baltimore, MD)
12. Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (Bethesda, MD)
13. Richard Montgomery High School (Rockville, MD)
14. Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Baltimore, MD)
15. George W. Carver Center for the Arts & Technology (Baltimore, MD)
16. Urbana High School (Ijamsville, MD)
17. Chesapeake Science Point (Hanover, MD)
18. Northwest High School (Germantown, MD)
19. Glenelg High School (Glenelg, MD)
20. South River High School (Edgewater, MD)
Other Montgomery County Schools:
26. Montgomery Blair High School (Silver Spring, MD)
34. James Hubert Blake High School (Silver Spring, MD)
35. Springbrook High School (Silver Spring, MD)
36. Damascus High School (Damascus, MD)
38. Clarksburg High School (Clarksburg, MD)
45. Quince Orchard High School (Gaithersburg, MD)
46. Wheaton High School (Silver Spring, MD)
49. Rockville High School (Rockville, MD)
54. Albert Einstein High School (Kensington, MD)
65. Col. Zadok Magruder High School (Rockville, MD)
67. Northwood High School (Silver Spring, MD)
70. Sherwood High School (Sandy Spring, MD)
76. Paint Branch High School (Burtonsville, MD)
115. Seneca Valley High School (Germantown, MD)
116. Watkins Mill High School (Montgomery Village, MD)
121. John F. Kennedy High School (Silver Spring, MD)
139. Gaithersburg High School (Gaithersburg, MD)
Per the article, “The highest ranked public schools in the 2023-2024 Best High Schools national rankings are those whose students achieved exceptional scores on state assessments for math, reading and science. These schools also had strong underserved student performance, college readiness and curriculum breadth, as well as graduation rates. College readiness specifically measures participation and performance on Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams, and underserved student performance focuses on students who are Black, Hispanic or from low-income households. The rankings include demographic information on schools ranked in the top 5%, 10%, and 25%.”
The full Maryland rankings by U.S. News & World Report can be found here.