

The graduation rate score is based on how many students who entered ninth grade in the 2016-2017 academic year graduated four years later in 2020. The underserved student performance category evaluates how Black, Hispanic and low-income students score on state assessments. Other factors were performance and proficiency on state assessments for reading, math and, for the first time in 2022, science (worth 40%), underserved student performance (10%), college curriculum breadth (10%) and graduation rates (10%). College readiness, which was 30% of a school’s score, was measured by the proportion of a school’s 12th graders who took and earned qualifying scores on AP or IB exams. The rankings’ methodology is based on six factors. The shift to charter schools making up a majority of Utah’s top 10 list coincided with a change in the methodology used by U.S. The report ranked 17,857 public high schools in the United States and 163 in Utah. Corner Canyon, the highest ranked traditional high school in the state, ranked no. The 2022 edition of the rankings used assessment data from the three school years prior to the pandemic (2016-17 to 2018-19) with graduation rates and college readiness data from the 2019-20 school year.īeehive Science and Technology Academy ranked no. The COVID-19 pandemic made academic assessment data unavailable for the 2019-20 school year, according to U.S. Timpview High School Provo School District, Provo.īeehive Science and Technology Academy and InTech Collegiate High School maintained their 2021 positions while Farmington High School landed in the top 10 for the first time. Skyline High School Granite School District, Millcreek.įarmington High School Davis School District, Farmington. Maeser Preparatory Academy charter, Lindon.Ĭorner Canyon High School Canyons School District, Draper. Itineris Early College High charter, West Jordan. Northern Utah Academy for Math Engineering and Science charter, Layton.Īcademy for Math Engineering and Science charter, Salt Lake City. InTech Collegiate High School charter, Logan. The report, released Monday, names these high schools as the top 10 in the state:īeehive Science and Technology Academy charter, Sandy. For the fourth year in a row, charter schools dominated Utah’s rankings in the annual list of best high schools compiled by U.S.
