Posted May 14, 2012

Last week, Shaker High School was named one of the top high schools in the nation.

Shaker High School has once again been honored by US News & World Report as one of the top high schools in America in their annual report released last week.

Overall Shaker High School was ranked 927 out of 21,776 nationally, and 123 out of 1,165 within New York state. That puts Shaker High School in the top 10 percent of all New York state high schools, and in the top four percent of high schools in the nation.

Only 370 of the 1,165 New York state high schools were selected to be included in the overall list. Shaker High School’s ranking this year places it in the top third of those rankings.

“I want to thank every individual in our high school for the support and effort they put into their position each day,” Shaker High School principal Richard Murphy said. “This accolade is a reflection of our mission to meet the education needs of each student.”

To produce this list, U.S. News partnered with the Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes for Research (AIR), which implemented U.S. News's rankings methodology. To determine the Best High Schools national rankings, schools were first analyzed at the state level in terms of how well students in each school performed on state assessments.

High schools that made it through this analysis were then eligible to be ranked nationally, in terms of college readiness. U.S. News determines the degree to which schools prepare students for college-level work by analyzing student success in Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) programs, both of which include college-level courses. U.S. News awarded more than 4,850 gold, silver, and bronze medals to the top-performing schools.