U.S. News & World Report releases 2023-24 high school rankings: A look at the Gardner area

Sandy Meindersma, The Gardner News
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U. S. News & World Report came out with its high school rankings for the 2023-2024 school year and named Boston Latin School as the top high school in Massachusetts, followed by the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School in Hadley. The Bromfield School, the public high school for the town of Harvard, is ranked as the state's third-best high school.

Admission to the Boston Latin School is in seventh and ninth grade only. Admission requirements include a test, grade level work and a B average. It is one of three exam schools in Boston, and students must live in the city to attend the school.

As a charter school, admission to the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School is by lottery. Siblings of currently enrolled students are given priority over other students in the lottery ranking.

Oakmont Regional High School
Oakmont Regional High School

Boston Latin School, which is part of the city of Boston Public Schools, is ranked 50th in the nation according to the magazine, which uses a methodology that incorporates six measures of academic achievement and performance: college readiness, college curriculum breadth, state assessment proficiency, state assessment performance, underserved student performance, and graduation rate. Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School ranked 57th nationwide. Bromfield is ranked 154th nationally.

The methodology distills the six measures into a score between 0 and 100.

Here is how Greater Gardner high schools are ranked:

All rankings can be found on the U.S. News & World Report website.

This article originally appeared on Gardner News: US News & World Report ranking of North Worcester County high schools