U.S. News & World ranks Ben Franklin High School among the nation’s best
Ben Franklin made the grade as one of the magazine’s Top 100 High Schools in the country, the only school in Louisiana to make the list.
Earning a Gold Medal ranking, nearly 90 percent of the school’s students are ready for college, according to the magazine.
Franklin finished 27th out of 21,786 public schools in the country.
According to reporter Robert Morse, the methodology to determine the schools is “based on the key principles that a great high school must serve all its students well, not just those who are collegebound, and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show the school is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators.”
The rankings are for public schools and, additionally, Franklin ranked sixth in magnet schools that made the top 100.
“The top 100 high schools nationwide with the highest college readiness index scores were ranked numerically (ties were broken using first the participant passing rate and then the average number of AP and/or IB exams passed per test taker) and awarded gold medals,” said Morse.
Regionally, Lusher High School received a silver medal and Chalmette High School, St. James High, South Plaquemines High and West St. John High all received bronze medals.
