U.S. News Discusses Best High Schools Rankings at Ed Department Meeting
July 12, 2012 RSS Feed Print
Government data quality issues affected a small number of ranked high schools.
Soon after the U.S. News 2012 Best High Schools rankings were published in May 2012, it became clear that there were errors in the 2009-2010 enrollment data used in the calculations. The data came from the U.S. Department of Education's Common Core of Data (CCD) and the errors affected a small number of the ranked high schools.
[See the detailed methodology used in Best High Schools rankings.]
One reason why U.S. News ranks the Best High Schools and