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Kirkwood High Ranks No. 3 in Missouri in U.S. News Survey
It's three steps up from last year's rankings by the magazine, which put only Kirkwood at No. 6 among the top-ranked Missouri high schools. Do you agree with the list?
Kirkwood High School ranked No. 3 on the 2013 list of top-ranked Missouri schools released by U.S. News & World Report today.
That's up from No. 6 in the 2012 rankings.
The magazine released its annual report of 2013 Best High Schools Rankings today. St. Louis-area high schools swept the top five in the U.S. News survey. In additional to Kirkwood High at No. 3, they included Metro Academic and Classical High School in St. Louis at No. 1; Clayton High at No. 2; Marquette High in Chesterfield at No. 4; and Eureka High at No. 5.
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Webster Groves High School was ranked 21 among the top 26 Missouri high schools in the magazine's survey. While KHS was ranked third in the state, nationally is was pegged at No. 453 among schools ranked by the magazine.
U.S. News collaborated with the American Institutes for Research, a D.C.-based organization, to rank student performance on such criteria as state-mandated assessments, how the schools educated minority or poor students, and performance on advanced placement exams in order to develop the rankings.
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NOTE: We will report more on the details of the survey as they become available.
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