M-DCPS HIGH SCHOOLS NAMED AMERICA’S BEST BY
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT

MIAMI – U.S. News & World Report announced recently its annual list of 100 Gold Medal High Schools and four Miami-Dade County public schools, Coral Reef Senior High School, Design & Architecture Senior High School (DASH), Maritime & Science Technology Academy (MAST), and New World School of the Arts made the grade as America’s 2010 Best High Schools.  This is the third gold medal for DASH, and the second for MAST and New World School of the Arts.

The magazine also honored five other Miami-Dade high schools.  The winners include silver, bronze and honorable mention:

Mater Academy Charter – Silver

William H. Turner Technical Arts – Bronze

School for Advanced Studies North - Honorable Mention
School for Advanced Studies South - Honorable Mention
School for Advanced Studies Wolfson - Honorable Mention

The magazine analyzed 21,000 high schools in 48 states using a formula produced by a K-12 data research and analysis business run by Standard & Poor's. The three-step analyses were based on Advanced Placement (AP) tests, International Baccalaureate (IB) tests, and then both AP and IB tests together.  The 100 schools that did the best earned gold medals. 

This list of all the schools is currently available on U.S. News’ website: www.usnews.com.

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