These are the top 100 high schools in Massachusetts, according to a new ranking

These are the top 100 high schools in Massachusetts, according to a new ranking

U.S. News and World Report has released its ranking of the best high schools in Massachusetts for 2024, and Boston Latin School once again topped the list.

In addition to ranking No. 1 among schools in the Bay State, it checked in at 27th on U.S. News and World Report’s list of the best high schools in America.

The news outlet reviewed 25,000 public high schools nationwide for its national ranking, with 351 Massachusetts schools making the local ranking.

BASIS Peoria in Peoria, Arizona, was ranked the top high school in all of America.

Schools were ranked based on six key indicators: college readiness (20%), state assessment proficiency (20%), state assessment performance (20%), underserved student performance (10%), college curriculum breadth (10%), and graduation rate (10%).

The top 100 high schools in Massachusetts ranked as follows:

  1. Boston Latin School -- Boston

  2. Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School -- Hadley

  3. Lexington High School -- Lexington

  4. Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School -- Marlboro

  5. Sturgis Charter Public School -- Hyannis

  6. John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science -- Boston

  7. Hopkinton High School -- Hopkinton

  8. Dover-Sherborn Regional High School -- Dover

  9. Boston Latin Academy -- Boston

  10. Acton-Boxborough Regional High School -- Acton

  11. Wayland High School -- Wayland

  12. Weston High School -- Weston

  13. Medfield Senior High School -- Medfield

  14. The Bromfield School -- Harvard

  15. Mystic Valley Regional Charter School -- Malden

  16. Belmont High School -- Belmont

  17. Manchester Essex Regional High School -- Manchester

  18. Pioneer Charter School of Science -- Everett

  19. Westford Academy -- Westford

  20. Concord Carlisle High School -- Concord

  21. Norwell High School -- Norwell

  22. Pioneer Charter School of Science 2 (PCSS-2) -- Saugus

  23. Winchester High School -- Winchester

  24. Hampden Charter School of Science -- Chicopee

  25. Mt Greylock Regional High School -- Williamstown

  26. Needham High School -- Needham

  27. Westborough High School -- Westborough

  28. Wellesley High School -- Wellesley

  29. Milton High School -- Milton

  30. Algonquin Regional High School -- Northborough

  31. Arlington High School -- Arlington

  32. Cohasset High School -- Cohasset

  33. Tahanto Regional High School -- Boylston

  34. Sharon High School -- Sharon

  35. Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public School -- Worcester

  36. Littleton High School -- Littleton

  37. Lenox Memorial High School -- Lenox

  38. Brookline High School -- Brookline

  39. Nashoba Regional -- Bolton

  40. Westwood High School -- Westwood

  41. Salem Academy Charter School -- Salem

  42. Hingham High School -- Hingham

  43. Newton North High School -- Newton

  44. Excel Academy Charter School -- Boston

  45. Medway High School -- Medway

  46. Newton South High School -- Newton

  47. Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School -- Hamilton

  48. Groton Dunstable Regional -- Groton

  49. Shrewsbury Senior High School -- Shrewsbury

  50. Old Rochester Regional High School -- Mattapoisett

  51. North Quincy High School -- Quincy

  52. Duxbury High School -- Duxbury

  53. Lynnfield High School -- Lynnfield

  54. Franklin High School -- Franklin

  55. Mansfield High School -- Mansfield

  56. Natick High School -- Natick

  57. Scituate High School -- Scituate

  58. Hopedale Junior Senior High School -- Hopedale

  59. Millis High School -- Millis

  60. Melrose High School -- Melrose

  61. Ashland High School -- Ashland

  62. Holliston High School - -Holliston

  63. Community Charter School of Cambridge -- Cambridge

  64. Ipswich High School -- Ipswich

  65. Bedford High School -- Bedford

  66. Masconomet Regional High School -- Boxford

  67. Andover High School -- Andover

  68. King Philip Regional High School -- Wrentham

  69. Nauset Regional High School -- Eastham

  70. KIPP Academy Lynn Charter School -- Lynn

  71. Pentucket Regional Senior High School -- West Newbury

  72. Frontier Regional -- South Deerfield

  73. Canton High School -- Canton

  74. Reading Memorial High School -- Reading

  75. Sandwich High School -- Sandwich

  76. Monomoy Regional High School -- Harwich

  77. Newburyport High School -- Newburyport

  78. Hull High School -- Hull

  79. Mashpee High School - -Mashpee

  80. Tantasqua Regional Senior High School -- Fiskdale

  81. Prospect Hill Academy Charter School -- Cambridge

  82. Foxborough High School -- Foxboro

  83. Swampscott High School -- Swampscott

  84. Oliver Ames High School -- Easton

  85. Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School -- Sudbury

  86. Marblehead High School -- Marblehead

  87. Hanover High School -- Hanover

  88. Chelmsford High School -- Chelmsford

  89. Wakefield Memorial High School -- Wakefield

  90. Pioneer Valley Regional -- Northfield

  91. Pembroke High School -- Pembroke

  92. Falmouth High School -- Falmouth

  93. Hopkins Academy -- Hadley

  94. North Reading High School -- North Reading

  95. Seekonk High School -- Seekonk

  96. North Andover High School -- North Andover

  97. Dedham High School -- Dedham

  98. Cambridge Rindge and Latin -- Cambridge

  99. Rockport High School -- Rockport

  100. Blackstone Valley -- Upton

To view all 351 Massachusetts schools in the power ranking, click here.

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