2014 U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools - Dallas-Fort Worth area

This is a list of DFW area 2014 Best High Schools according to U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News joins with the America Institutes for Research, one of the largest behavioral and social science research organizations in the world, to determine these rankings. Their methodology is based on the belief a great high school serves all of its students well, including those not college bound. The schools must be able to produce measurable results showing success across a range of performance indicators. This list was developed after analyzing data for 19,411 high schools determined to have sufficient enrollment and data.


National Ranking - School (District ISD/charter)

1 - Talented/Gifted magnet (Dallas)
8 - Science/Engineering magnet (Dallas)
78 - Rangel girls school magnet (Dallas)
98 - Highland Park (Highland Park)

139 - Booker T. performing/visual arts magnet (Dallas)
166 - Law magnet (Dallas)
196 - Uplift North Hills Prep (charter)

203 - Uplift Peak Prep (charter)
234 - Lovejoy (Lovejoy)
242 - Uplift Williams Prep (charter)
249 - Harmony Science Fort Worth (charter)

306 - Harmony Science Dallas (charter)
333 - Colleyville Heritage (Grapevine-Colleyville)
344 - Health magnet (Dallas)

416 - McKinney (McKinney)
420 - J.J. Pearce (Richardson)
426 - Business magnet (Dallas)
483 - Boyd (McKinney)

501 - North (McKinney)
506 - Coppell (Coppell)
517 - Education magnet (Dallas)
569 - Prosper (Prosper)
571 - Creekview (Carrollton-Farmers Branch)
587 - Flower Mound (Lewisville)

619 - Richardson (Richardson)
672 - Liberty (Frisco)

700 - Centennial (Frisco)
794 - Marcus (Lewisville)

819 - Rockwall-Heath (Rockwall)
822 - Paschal (Ft. Worth)
839 - Rockwall (Rockwall)
845 - Wakeland (Frisco)

871 - Keller (Keller)
876 - Newman Smith (Carrollton-Farmers Branch)
897 - Frisco (Frisco)
996 - Heritage (Frisco)

1019 - Byron Nelson (Northwest)
1028 - Argyle (Argyle)
1053 - Early College (Dallas)
1168 - Celina (Celina)

1232 - Berkner (Richardson)
1264 - Summit (Mansfield)
1286 - Richland (Birdville)

1413 - Central (Keller)
1450 - Dubiski Career (Grand Prairie)
1473 - Fossil Ridge (Keller)

1501 - Birdville (Birdville)
1549 - Rowlett (Garland)
1564 - Denison (Denison)

1656 - Gilliam Collegiate (Dallas)
1794 - Wylie (Wylie)

1815 - Ryan (Denton)
1864 - Granbury (Granbury)
1898 - Midlothian (Midlothian)

1903 - Sachse (Garland)
1929 - North Garland (Garland)


Source: U.S. News & World Report, April 2014

2014 America's Most Challenging High Schools according to The Washington Post

This list of "Most Challenging High Schools" published by The Washington Post is determined by taking the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year and dividing it by the number of seniors who graduated that year. (Note: these are students taking these tests, not necessarily passing the tests.)

National Ranking - School (public ISD, charter or private)

2 - Uplift North Hills Prep (charter)
4 - Talented/Gifted magnet (Dallas)
5 - Science/Engineering magnet (Dallas)

16 - Uplift Summit Prep (charter)
20 - Rangel girls school (Dallas)
29 - Uplift Williams Prep (charter)

35 - Dallas International (private)
36 - Westlake (charter)
59 - Harmony Innovation (charter)
72 - Law Magnet (Dallas)
93 - Highland Park (Highland Park)

156 - Uplift Peak Prep (charter)
202 - Health magnet (Dallas)
347 - J.J. Pearce (Richardson)
366 - Colleyville Heritage (Grapevine-Colleyville)

400 - Academy of Irving (Irving)
411 - Harmony Science Academy (charter)
414 - North (McKinney)
416 - W.T. White (Dallas)
430 - Grapevine (Grapevine-Colleyville)
484 - Liberty (Frisco)

530 - Hillcrest (Dallas)
536 - Southlake Carroll (Carroll)
551 - Plano West (Plano)
561 - McKinney (McKinney)

617 - Boyd (McKinney)
668 - Richardson (Richardson)
740 - Paschal (Ft. Worth)

885 - Wakeland (Frisco)
889 - Centennial (Frisco)
921 - Creekview (Carrollton-Farmers Branch)
993 - Keller (Keller)

1049 - Allen (Allen)
1064 - Lone Star (Frisco)
1088 - Frisco (Frisco)
1092 - Heritage (Frisco)

1123 - L.D. Bell (HEB)
1124 - Flower Mound (Lewisville)
1170 - Berkner (Richardson)
1184 - Woodrow Wilson (Dallas)

1409 - Newman Smith (Carrollton-Farmers Branch)
1489 - Trinity (HEB)
1728 - Denison (Denison)
1796 - North Garland (Garland)
1864 - Sherman (Sherman)
1977 - Sachse (Garland)

Source: The Washington Post