This year Orange County Public Schools has 13 high schools listed among the best in the nation, according to Newsweek magazine’s annual rankings. Winter Park, Olympia, and University high schools were ranked in the top 15 percent of all U.S. high schools scored.
The 2010 list includes one more Orange County high school than last year. Wekiva High School was ranked 870th out of the1,622 schools, in their first year of eligibility.
Each year the magazine creates a Challenge Index which takes the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or Cambridge (AICE) tests given at a school, divided by the number of graduating seniors. Only six percent of the schools in the nation make the prestigious Newsweek list.
Newsweek Rank School
165 Winter Park High School
210 Olympia High School
241 University High School
252 Cypress Creek High School
360 Edgewater High School
463 Dr. Phillips High School
748 Timber Creek High School
870 Wekiva High School
892 West Orange High School
922 Apopka High School
1,009 Boone High School
1,134 Freedom High School
1,324 Ocoee High School
For more on the Newsweek rankings, click HERE.
