Three Sarasota County high schools ranked among Florida's, nation's best
Three local Sarasota County schools earned high rankings among tens of thousands of schools nationwide by U.S. News and World Report this week.
Pine View was ranked the second-best high school in the state of Florida and No. 13 in the U.S. according to the new report, which ranks the nation's best high schools.
The school serves gifted learners in second through 12th grades and regularly rakes up awards and recognition. The public Sarasota County school won high marks on the report for college readiness as well as assessments for Florida schools. The small, Osprey-based school boasts a 100% graduation rate and has a total enrollment of 737 students.
A second Sarasota County District school, Suncoast Polytech in Sarasota, was ranked 36th in the state of Florida. The public magnet school offers a rigorous college readiness curriculum at its Beneva Road campus and has served high school students since 2012. The report noted the school's large underserved student population, with around 35% of the enrolled 541 students identifying as "economically disadvantaged."
Suncoast Polytech landed at No. 491 overall among more than 17,000 ranked high schools nationally.
Nearly 11% of high schools were charter schools and about 4% were magnets.
Sarasota's Riverview High School cracked the top 100 best schools in Florida, landing at No. 88 in the Sunshine State and in the high 1,300s in the country. The school's curriculum is based on the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. Riverview's total student population this year is approximately 2,534.
This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Pine View, Suncoast, Riverview rank high by U.S. News & World Report
