Newsweek ranks schools using a ratio that takes the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school, and divides it by the number of graduating seniors.
Click here for more on how the ratio is calculated
According to Newsweek, all of the schools on the list have an index of at least 1.000 - putting them in the top 6 percent of public schools measured this way.
Here are Newsweek's top Triangle area schools:
- 42 Raleigh Charter Raleigh
- 107 Woods Charter Chapel Hill
- 118 East Chapel Hill Chapel Hill
- 127 Enloe Raleigh
- 214 Chapel Hill Chapel Hill
- 251 Durham School of the Arts Durham
- 300 Needham Broughton Raleigh
- 415 Jordan Durham
- 458 Green Hope Morrisville
- 486 Pinecrest Southern Pines
- 839 Riverside Durham
- 1056 Northern Durham
- 1136 Wakefield Raleigh
- 1547 Northwood Pittsboro
The complete list can be found at: http://www.newsweek.com/feature/2010/americas-best-high-schools/list.html.
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