Summit Prep, Mills, Burlingame and Aragon rank high in U.S. News & World Report

Following Summit, Aragon High School in San Mateo was ranked 73rd in the state, 379th nationally. Burlingame High School was ranked 91st in California, 471st nationally.

Mills High School in Millbrae was ranked 97th in California, 519th nationally. Carlmont High School in Belmont was ranked 145th in California, 748th nationally.

Both high schools in South San Francisco made the list. El Camino High School was ranked 290th in California, 1,261st nationally. South San Francisco High School was ranked 432nd in California, 1,874th nationally.

To produce the 2013 rankings, U.S. News & World Report worked with the American Institutes for Research. The methodology is based on the belief that “a great high school must serve all of its students well, not just those who are college-bound, and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show the school is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators,” according to the publication’s website.

Analysis includes a three-step process, determine: if the school’s students were performing better than statistically expected for the average student in the state; if the school’s least-advantaged students were performing better than average for similar students in the state; and college-bound readiness performance using advanced placement of international baccalaureate test data.

In total, 21,035 public high schools in 49 states and the District of Columbia were analyzed. That included all public high schools that had 12th grade enrollment and sufficient data from the 2010-11 school year for analysis, according to the U.S. News & World Report website.

For more information visit www.usnews.com/education/high-schools.