Newsweek names Portage Northern High one of top 500

Portage Northern High School has again made Newsweek Magazine’s list of top 500 public high schools.

The magazine judged schools on: graduation rate (25 percent), college matriculation rate (25 percent), AP tests taken per graduate (25 percent), average SAT/ACT scores (10 percent), average AP/IB/ scores (10 percent), and AP courses offered (5 percent).

Sixteen public schools from Michigan made the 2011 list. Portage Northern ranked 471 of 500.

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These are challenging times for secondary education. Cash-strapped school districts are cutting back; No Child Left Behind mandates test results; parents and students stress unabated. NEWSWEEK, which has been ranking the top public high schools in America for more than a decade, revamped its methodology this year in hopes of highlighting solutions.

For more on the best high schools in the nation, read the rest of the story.

Source: Newsweek