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Ladue High Ranks Best in Missouri in Newsweek Survey

That news comes two weeks after Ladue Horton Watkins High was left off the list of top-ranked Missouri schools by U.S. News & World Report.

When U.S. News & World Report released its ranking of the nation's high schools on April 23, Ladue Horton Watkins High School wasn't on the list. The news had some parents wondering and prompted a response from the Ladue School District.

The short answer: U.S. News didn't include students who had taken end-of-course algebra I tests in eighth grade. It only counts the numbers from high schoolers.

But now, a new ranking is out and it puts Ladue High at the head of the class among Missouri high schools.

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Newsweek has released its online ranking of the top 2,000 high schools in the country and Ladue ranks 166 in the country, the highest ranking among Missouri schools. The next closest is Clayton at 179.

Ladue's ranking is up from 188 last year, when it was the fourth-highest ranked Missouri school on the list.

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  • RELATED: Ladue School District: Why Ladue High Didn't Make U.S. News' Rankings

Further, Ladue High ranked No. 18 among the schools in the midwest.

Newsweek's list is based on six components:

  • Graduation rate (25 percent)
  • College acceptance rate (25 percent)
  • Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or Advanced International Certificate of Education tests taken per student (25 percent)
  • Average SAT/ACT scores (10 percent)
  • Average AP/IB/AICE scores (10 percent)
  • Percent of students enrolled in at least one AP/IB/AICE course (5 percent)

On those measures, Ladue had a 99 percent graduation rate; a college acceptance rate of 92 percent; average SAT score of 1,927; an average ACT score of 26.4; average AP score of 4; and 0.8 advanced placement tests given per student.


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