MELVERN — Marais des Cygnes Valley High School was among the 39 Kansas high schools awarded with bronze awards in the first-ever ranking of America’s Best High Schools by US News & World Report.
The magazine used “a formula produced in collaboration with School Evaluation Services, a K-12 data research and analysis business run by Standard & Poor’s, which put high schools in 40 states through a three-step analysis.”
The analysis included progress on state tests, how well disadvantaged students did and if the school provides college-level course work. More than 18,000 schools across the country were evaluated.
According to the magazine, 505 schools nationally received gold or silver medals. Marais des Cygnes Valley was one of 1,068 schools across the country to receive the bronze ranking.