{"id":282599,"date":"2026-04-23T20:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282599\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:55:11","slug":"where-do-sacramento-high-schools-fall-on-list-of-top-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282599\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do Sacramento high schools fall on list of top campuses?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Students<\/p>\n

Students at Granite Bay High School walk to school after returning to campus in 2021. The school rated highly on the U.S. News Best High Schools rankings .<\/p>\n

Daniel Kim<\/p>\n

dkim@sacbee.com<\/p>\n

Several Sacramento-area campuses score highly on the U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools rankings for 2025-2026, the publication said.<\/p>\n

Ten Sacramento-area public high schools ranked among the top 250 of more than 1,600 public school campuses ranked by the publication.<\/p>\n

In all, the report reviewed more than 24,000 schools<\/a> across the United States, ranking them \u201cbased on their performance on state assessments and how well they prepare students for college.\u201d<\/p>\n

Graduation rates and college readiness were two of the criteria.<\/p>\n

College readiness measured the percentage<\/a> of 12th graders from the class of 2022-2023 who took at least one advanced placement or international baccalaureate exam by the end of their senior year and the percentage of 12th graders who earned a qualifying score on at least one AP or IB exam in high school, U.S. News said.<\/p>\n

How did Sacramento-area schools fare?<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s where Sacramento-area campuses fell on the list of the top 250 California public high schools. For the full list of the top 1,600 California high schools, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

West Campus High School in the Sacramento City Unified School District ranked 22nd statewide. The school has a 100% graduation rate and a 78.8% college readiness rating.<\/p>\n

Western Sierra Collegiate Academy in the Western Sierra Collegiate Academy District in Rocklin ranked 26th statewide. The school has a 97% graduation rate and a 76.8% college readiness rating.<\/p>\n

Umoja International Academy in the Sacramento City Unified School District ranked 88th statewide. The school has a 100% graduation rate and a 53.8% college readiness rating<\/p>\n

Granite Bay High School in the Roseville Joint Union High School District ranked 104th statewide. The school has a 95% graduation rate and a 60.7% college readiness rating.<\/p>\n

Davis Senior High School in the Davis Joint Unified School District ranked 123rd statewide. The school has a 95% graduation rate and a 53.1% college readiness rating.<\/p>\n

Pleasant Grove High School in the Elk Grove Unified School District ranked 180th statewide. The school has a 96% graduation rate and a 47.5% college readiness rating.<\/p>\n

Vista Del Lago High School in the Folsom-Cordova Unified School District ranked 187th statewide. The school has a 99% graduation rate and a 47.5% college readiness rating.<\/p>\n

Oak Ridge High School in the El Dorado Union High School District in El Dorado Hills ranked 220th statewide. The school has a 97% graduation rate and a 51.7% college readiness rating.<\/p>\n

Folsom High School in the Folsom-Cordova Unified School District ranked 221st statewide. The school has a 96% graduation rate and a 45.4% college readiness rating.<\/p>\n

\"Folsom Folsom High School Anne Chadwick Williams Sacramento Bee file photo <\/p>\n

The School of Engineering and Sciences in the Sacramento City Unified School District ranked 238th statewide. The school has a 100% graduation rate and a 39.5% college readiness rating.<\/p>\n

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Don Sweeney<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Don Sweeney has been a newspaper reporter and editor in California for more than 35 years. He is a service reporter based at The Sacramento Bee.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students at Granite Bay High School walk to school after returning to campus in 2021. The school rated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-282599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}