{"id":267709,"date":"2026-08-18T20:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267709\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:04:11","slug":"these-are-pittsburgh-areas-best-public-high-schools-u-s-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267709\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are Pittsburgh Area&#8217;s Best Public High Schools: U.S. News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In coordination with North Carolina-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rti.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">RTI International,<\/a> a global nonprofit social science research firm U.S. News ranked nearly 18,000 public high schools nationally out of more than 27,000 reviewed. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. News did this by summing their weighted scores across six indicators of school quality, then computing a single zero to 100 overall score reflective of a school&#8217;s performance across these metrics. <\/p>\n<p>The overall scores depict how well each school did on a national percentile basis. For example, a school with a score of 60 performed in the 60th percentile among all schools in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The rankings&#8217; performance measures included student achievement on state-required assessments, graduation rates, and college readiness.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. News also consided how well schools serve underserved students, participation and performance on Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams, curriculum breadth, and overall student outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In coordination with North Carolina-based RTI International, a global nonprofit social science research firm U.S. News ranked nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-267709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267709","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=267709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}