Kirkwood High Ranks 6th in Missouri in Newsweek Survey

Different survey, different results.

Two weeks ago, Kirkwood High School ranked third in Missouri in the U.S. News & World Report ranking of the best high schools in the country. Now, Newsweek has a different list, and KHS has a different position in the rankings.

Newsweek's its online ranking of the top 2,000 high schools in the country puts Kirkwood as the sixth best in Missouri, with a ranking of 523 among the top 2,000. That ranking keeps Kirkwood out of Newsweek's list of the 25 best in the Midwest—a ranking that put Ladue Horton Watkins at No. 18 and Clayton High at No. 20. Ladue was ranking the No. 1 school in Missouri.

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Kirkwood High moved up from No. 12 in Missouri in last year's survey, when it was ranked 906 in the country.

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, Kirkwood had a graduation rate of 97 percent; 93 percent rate of college-bound students; gives 0.4 AP exams per student; and reported an average ACT score of 23.9 and average AP test score of 3.7.