Texas High Schools Shine
Two Dallas ISD Campuses Make U.S. News & World Report Top 10 List
Two Dallas ISD schools were among the top 10 schools in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s America’s
Best High Schools rankings,
released late last year.
Dallas ISD’s School for the
Talented and Gifted at Yvonne
A. Ewell Townview Center
ranked fifth in the country, and
the district’s School of Science
and Engineering Magnet
ranked eighth in the magazine’s
annual listing. U.S. News uses a
three-step process that analyzes
first how schools are educating
all of their students, then their
minority and disadvantaged
students, and finally their
college-bound students based
on student scores on statewide
tests, Advanced Placement
tests, and International
Baccalaureate tests. Nine other
Texas schools made the Top
100 list.
Of the 21,786 public high
schools examined by U.S. News
and its partner in the project,
School Evaluation Services,
1,750 were recognized for
considerably outperforming
their state’s standards. In that
group, there were 561 schools
that also were found to be
doing an excellent job of
preparing students for college-level coursework. California
leads the nation this year for
schools earning either Gold or
Silver honors, with 110 high
schools, followed by New York
(53 schools), Texas (50
schools), Illinois ( 37 schools),
Florida ( 24 schools), and
Massachusetts ( 21 schools).
The magazine’s list of top
schools was divided into Gold,
Silver, Bronze, and Honorable
Mention, based on each
school’s meeting the criteria for
excellence. Besides the two
Dallas ISD schools in the Top
10, other Texas schools earning
honors included the following:
Gold (Top 100)
IDEA Academy & College
Preparatory Donna
Campus, 13th
KIPP Houston High
School, 16th
DeBakey High School for
Health Professions,
Houston ISD, 40th
YES Preparatory, Houston,
68th
Highland Park High School,
Highland Park ISD (Dallas
County), 71st
Carnegie Vanguard High
School, Houston ISD,
77th
South Texas High School for
Health Professions, South
Texas ISD, 88th
Fort Worth Academy of Fine
Arts, 91st
Hidalgo Early College High
School, Hidalgo ISD, 97th
Silver
Challenge Early College
High School, Houston
Clements High School, Fort
Bend ISD
Comanche High School,
Comanche ISD
Coppell High School,
Coppell ISD
Eagle Pass High School,
Eagle Pass ISD
Edinburg North High
School, Edinburg CISD
Fabens High School,
Fabens ISD
Harmony Science Academy,
Houston
High School for Law
Enforcement and Criminal
Justice, Houston ISD
Homer Hanna High School,
Brownsville ISD
International School of the
Americas, North East ISD
Jack E. Singley Academy of
Irving ISD
James Pace High School,
Brownsville ISD
J.J. Pearce High School,
Richardson ISD
Kerr High School, Alief ISD
La Joya Senior High School,
Ja Joya ISD
Lake Travis High School,
Lake Travis ISD
MacArthur Senior High
School, Aldine ISD
Memorial High School,
Spring Branch ISD
Northside Health Careers
High School, Northside
ISD
Port Isabel High School,
Point Isabel ISD
Richardson High School,
Richardson ISD
Santa Maria High School,
Santa Maria ISD
Science Academy, South
Texas ISD
Silva Health Magnet School,
El Paso ISD
Simon Rivera High School,
Brownsville ISD
South Texas Academy of
Medical Technology, South
Texas ISD
Fiction: Texas
public schools don’t
stack up against
other schools in the
nation.
FACT: Eleven
Texas schools
ranked among the
top 100 in the
nation in a recent
report—two of
them in the top 10.
South Texas Business
Education & Technology
Academy, South Texas ISD
Stratford Senior High
School, Spring Branch ISD
The High School for the
Performing and Visual
Arts, Houston ISD
The School of Business and
Management, Dallas ISD
The School of Education and
Social Services, Dallas ISD
The School of Government,
Law and Law Enforce-
ment, Dallas ISD
The School of Health
Professions, Dallas ISD
Weslaco East High School,
Weslaco ISD
Weslaco High School,
Weslaco ISD
Westchester Academy for
International Studies,
Spring Branch ISD
Westlake High School,
Eanes ISD
Westwood High School,
Round Rock ISD
