98 Md. high schools ranked in U.S. survey

State's percentage is highest on magazine's top-1,600 high school list
By Liz Bowie, The Baltimore Sun

Maryland claimed 98 spots on Newsweek's annual list of top high schools in the country, and no other state had a higher percentage of its schools make the list.

More than half of the state's 185 high schools were considered good enough to be ranked, according to state schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick.

The rating system, developed by Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews, includes an index that measures the number of graduates who take challenging Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate classes and exams. Because Maryland has been placing a priority on training teachers and getting students to take the exams for the past decade, public schools tend to do well on this ranking system.

Only 6 percent, or 1,600, of the 27,000 high schools in the country make the list.

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