Newark Memorial High School Climbs In U.S. News 2022 Rankings

Bea Karnes
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NEWARK, CA — Newark Memorial High School rose in the ranking of California high schools from No. 799 last year to 780 this year, according to a new report by U.S. News and World Report. More than 1,600 California high schools are ranked.

Nationally, the school is ranked 5,489 out of 17,800.

The 2022 ranking of best high schools was released Tuesday.

U.S. New notes, "Newark Memorial High School is ranked 780th within California. Students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement coursework and exams. The AP participation rate at Newark Memorial High School is 41%. The total minority enrollment is 88%, and 51% of students are economically disadvantaged."

This year’s schools were ranked on six measures: college readiness, college curriculum breadth, state assessment performance, state assessment proficiency, reading and math proficiency, reading and math performance, underserved student performance and graduation rates.

The data used in this year’s ranking is from the 2019-20 academic school year. U.S. News adjusted its calculation of these measures to account for the impact COVID-19 had on schools in the 2019-20 school year.

Since most states closed schools for in-person instruction starting in March 2020 — typically just before most states conduct assessments — the U.S. Department of Education granted waivers allowing all states to forgo state testing for the 2019-20 school year.

To account for this, U.S. News relied on past assessment data from the three prior ranking years. Researchers also incorporated state science assessment data from the 2018-19 school year.

Read more about the Best High Schools methodology.

In addition to the national rankings, U.S. News also published rankings at the state, metro area and school district levels. Only metro areas and school districts with three or more high schools were included in these subrankings.

This year’s list of best high schools evaluated more than 17,800 schools nationwide.

This article originally appeared on the Newark Patch