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Eight Compact Member Schools Make Newsweek's List of America's Best High Schools

Newsweek annually picks the country's best high schools based on how hard school staffs work to challenge students with advanced placement college-level courses and tests. Approximately 1,600 schools – only six percent of all the public schools in the U.S. – made the list. Among them were eight Compact member schools representing both Allegheny and Beavers counties from the 10-county Pittsburgh region. These include Blackhawk (ranked 857) in Beaver County and Upper St. Clair (905); Quaker Valley (994); Pine-Richland (1,020); Pittsburgh Allderdice/Pittsburgh Public Schools (1,538); South Fayette (1,543); and North Allegheny (1,556) — all in Allegheny County. The rankings are based on a "challenge index," which considers the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or Cambridge tests given at a school in a school year, divided by the number of seniors graduating that year. Schools with a ratio of at least 1.0, which means they had at least as many tests as graduates, are included in the list. Congratulations to these Compact member schools, their staffs and their students.