{"id":148933,"date":"2026-03-26T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148933\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:24:09","slug":"these-are-the-top-ranked-lehigh-valley-high-schools-in-u-s-news-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148933\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the top ranked Lehigh Valley high schools in U.S. News list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest U.S. News and World Report best high schools ranking includes four Lehigh Valley public schools in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-high-schools\/search?state-urlname=pennsylvania&amp;ranked=true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania\u2019s top 100<\/a>, with a charter school ranking the highest of the four.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-high-schools\/articles\/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The list uses metrics such as graduation rate and college readiness<\/a>, a score that measures participation and passing rates in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams.<\/p>\n<p>Scores on state assessments also factor into the rankings, and adjustments are made to account for how much a school over or under performs in relation to expectations informed by demographic data.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the Lehigh Valley public high schools that made the top 100 in Pennsylvania:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Lehigh Valley Academy Regional Charter School: #23 in PA, #754 nationally<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Southern Lehigh Senior High School: #71 in PA, #1,901 nationally<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Nazareth Area High School: #90 in PA, #2,302 nationally<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Parkland High School: #97 in PA, #2,557 nationally<\/p>\n<p>Just out of the top 100 were two other Lehigh Valley schools: Saucon Valley Senior High ranked #104 in PA, #2,744 nationally, while Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts ranked #107 in PA, #2,778 nationally.<\/p>\n<p>See how all of the Lehigh Valley\u2019s high schools ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/09\/23\/lehigh-valley-best-high-schools-pennsylvania-us-news-rankings-2025-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/09\/23\/lehigh-valley-best-high-schools-pennsylvania-us-news-rankings-2025-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What are the best high schools in the Lehigh Valley? Latest U.S. News rankings revealed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest U.S. News and World Report best high schools ranking includes four Lehigh Valley public schools in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,227,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-148933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-education","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}