2012 Washington Post's Rankings of Best High Schools - Dallas area schools

This is the original national ranking of high schools by Jay Mathews. It is based on the number of college-level tests given at a school in 2011 divided by the number of graduates. Here is how Dallas area high schools ranked:

National Rank - School (District)

3 - Science/Engineering magnet (Dallas ISD)
6 - Talented/Gifted magnet (Dallas ISD)
24 - North Hills (Uplift charter)
29 - Summit (Uplift charter)
34 - Peak Preparatory (Uplift charter)

36 - Westlake (charter)
41 - Hampton Prep (Uplift charter)
70 - Williams Prep (Uplift charter)
89 - Highland Park (Highland Park ISD)
94 - Rangel Women's (Dallas ISD)

96 - Sanders Law magnet (Dallas ISD)
113 - Booker T. Performing/Visual Arts magnet (Dallas ISD)
145 - Health magnet (Dallas ISD)
171 - Business/Management magnet (Dallas ISD)
203 - Colleyville Heritage (Grapevine-Colleyville ISD)

285 - WT White (Dallas ISD)
297 - JJ Pearce (Richardson ISD)
307 - McKinney (McKinney ISD)
310 - Grapevine (Grapevine-Colleyville ISD)
319 - Paschal (Fort Worth ISD)

337 - North (McKinney ISD)
402 - Plano West (Plano ISD)
439 - Woodrow (Dallas ISD)
464 - Richardson (Richardson ISD)
567 - Hillcrest (Dallas ISD)

626 - Boyd (McKinney ISD)
637 - RL Turner (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
705 - Plano Senior (Plano ISD)
716 - Arlington Heights (Ft. Worth ISD)
838 - Guyer  (Denton ISD)

866 - Harmony Science Dallas (charter)
894 - Frisco (Frisco ISD)
941 - FW Academy of Fine Arts (charter)
982 - Flower Mound (Lewisville ISD)
1049 - Liberty (Frisco ISD)

1081 - LD Bell (HEB ISD)
1098 - Marcus (Lewisville ISD)
1129 - Newman Smith (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
1162 - Berkner (Richardson ISD)
1182 - Argyle (Argyle ISD)

1187 - Birdville (Birdville ISD)
1188 - Keller (Keller ISD)
1289 - Creekview (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
1299 - Aledo (Aledo ISD)
1406 - Trinity (HEB ISD)

1587 - Denison (Denison ISD)
1856 - Sherman (Sherman ISD)

Souce: Washington Post

2012 - Newsweek's America's Best Public High Schools List - Dallas area schools

Newsweek/The Daily Beast published its list of the 1,000 best public high schools in America for producing college-ready graduates. They looked at six things: graduation rate (25 percent), college matriculation rate (25 percent), AP/IB/AICE tests taken per student (25 percent), average SAT/ACT scores (10 percent), average AP/IB/AICE scores (10 percent), and AP courses offered per student (5 percent). Don't get me started on the worthlessness of looking at number of AP tests taken by students, when many students fail these tests.

This list only has Dallas-Ft. Worth area schools on it.

National Rank - School (district ISD)

2 - Talented/Gifted magnet (Dallas ISD)
4 - Science/Engineering magnet (Dallas ISD)
14 - North Hills Prep (Uplift charter)
18 - Westlake (charter)
47 - Highland Park (Highland Park ISD)

59 - Summit Prep (Uplift charter)
63 - Plano West (Plano ISD)
108 - Plano Senior (Plano ISD)
116 - Law magnet (Dallas ISD)
184 - Business/Management magnet (Dallas ISD)

196 - Colleyville Heritage (Grapevine-Colleyville ISD)
206 - Perferming/Visual Arts magnet (Dallas ISD)
210 - Southlake Carroll Senior (Carroll ISD)
230 - Lovejoy (Lovejoy ISD)
243 - Plano East (Plano ISD)

264 - Williams Prep (Uplift charter)
370 - Harmony Science Ft. Worth (charter)
396 - Grapevine (Grapevine-Colleyville ISD)
429 - Coppell (Coppell ISD)
537 - Peak Prep (Uplift charter)

544 - Harmony Science Dallas (charter)
553 - FW Academy of Fine Arts (charter)
566 - JJ Pearce (Richardson ISD)
651 - Allen (Allen ISD)
767 - Richardson (Richardson ISD)

835 - Berkner (Richardson ISD)
846 - Rockwall (Rockwall ISD)
1000 - Flower Mound Marcus (Lewisville ISD)

source: The Daily Beast website

2012 U.S. News Best High Schools in the Dallas area

U.S. News & World Report evaluated 22,000 public high schools and ranked the schools based on how the students did compared to other students in the state in math and reading, how the low income students did, how the least-advantaged students did, and how college-ready the students were using IB and AP - participating rates and scores.

Only the Dallas area schools are on this list.

National Rank. School (district)

1. School for the Talented & Gifted Magnet (Dallas ISD)
3. School of Science and Engineering Magnet (Dallas ISD)
37.  Westlake Academy (charter in Westlake)
66. Peak Preparatory (charter in Dallas)
92. Highland Park (Highland Park ISD)

134.  Booker T. Washington Performing/Visual Arts magnet (Dallas ISD)
286.  Rangel Young Women's Leadership magnet (Dallas ISD)
312. Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts (Ft. Worth ISD)
320. Barefoot Sanders Law magnet (Dallas ISD)
326. Plano West (Plano ISD)

332. Coppell (Coppell ISD)
403. North Hills Prep (charter in Irving)
417. Colleyville Heritage (Grapevine-Colleyville ISD)
445. Creekview (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
448. Business/Management magnet (Dallas ISD)

461. Lovejoy (Lovejoy ISD)
529. Grapevine (Grapevine-Colleyville ISD)
542. Carroll Senior (Carroll ISD)
551. JJ Pearce (Richardson ISD)
554. Harmony Science Academy (charter in Dallas)

558. Plano Senior (Plano ISD)
564. Prosper (Prosper ISD)
578. Health magnet (Dallas ISD)
642. McKinney North (McKinney ISD)
657. WT White (Dallas ISD)

791. Singley Academy (Irving ISD)
796. Keller (Keller ISD)
836. Flower Mound Marcus (Lewisville ISD)
875. Argyle (Argyle ISD)
885. Flower Mound (Lewisville ISD)

903. Liberty (Frisco ISD)
919. Hebron (Lewisville ISD)
920. RL Turner (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
986. Centennial (Frisco ISD)
990. Aledo (Aledo ISD)

1026. Plano East (Plano ISD)
1042. Rockwall (Rockwall ISD)
1103. Education/Social Services magnet (Dallas ISD)
1219. Allen (Allen ISD)
1242. Berkner (Richardson ISD)

1280. Frisco (Frisco ISD)
1337. Garland (Garland ISD)
1343. Sherman (Sherman ISD)
1470. Trinity (HEB ISD)
1518. Rowlett (Garland ISD)

1531. Bell (HEB ISD)
1598. Irving (Irving ISD)
1613. Skyline (Dallas ISD)
1683. Macarthur (Irving ISD)
1723. A+ Academy (charter in Dallas)

1851. Lewisville (Lewisville ISD)
1879. Molina (Dallas ISD)
1918. Trimble Tech (Ft. Worth ISD)
1984. Poteet (Mesquite ISD)
1993. Sachse (Garland ISD)
1999. Denison (Denison ISD)


Source: US News & World Report