{"id":267830,"date":"2026-08-19T00:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267830\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T00:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:08:07","slug":"these-are-the-best-high-schools-in-the-pittsburgh-area-for-2026-according-to-u-s-news-and-world-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267830\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the best high schools in the Pittsburgh area for 2026, according to U.S. News and World Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. News and World Report&#8217;s latest annual list of the best high schools includes numerous from the Pittsburgh area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-high-schools\/rankings-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-absolute=\"true\">rankings<\/a>, which were released on Tuesday, are based on six factors to find the best public high schools across America. This year, nearly 18,000 schools across the 50 states were included.<\/p>\n<p>More than 150 high schools in the Pittsburgh metro area, as designated by U.S. News and World Report, were ranked for the 2026 list. Peters Township High School, No. 382 in the national ranks, was the highest-ranked school in the Pittsburgh metro.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A list of the top 10 public schools in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-high-schools\/pennsylvania\/rankings\/pittsburgh-pa-38300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-absolute=\"true\">Pittsburgh metro area<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-high-schools\/pennsylvania\/rankings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-absolute=\"true\">Pennsylvania<\/a>, according to U.S. News and World Report, can be found below.<\/p>\n<p>Top 10 Pittsburgh-area public high schoolsPeters Township High School (No. 382 nationally)Upper St. Clair High School (No. 426 nationally)  Fox Chapel Area High School (No. 508 nationally)  Mt. Lebanon High School (No. 517 nationally)  Pine-Richland High School (No. 554 nationally)  Hampton High School (No. 606 nationally)  Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 (No. 631 nationally)  South Fayette High School (No. 649 nationally)  Quaker Valley High School (No. 737 nationally)  Neshannock Junior\/Senior High School (No. 772 nationally)  <br \/>Top 10 Pennsylvania public high schoolsJulia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School (No. 3 nationally)\u00a0  Downingtown STEM Academy (No. 19 nationally)\u00a0  Central High School (No. 119 nationally)\u00a0  New Hope-Solebury High School (No. 254 nationally)\u00a0  Wilkes-Barre Area STEM Academy (No. 323 nationally)\u00a0  Harriton High School (No. 339 nationally)\u00a0  Radnor High School (No. 341 nationally)\u00a0  Lower Merion High School (No. 380 nationally)\u00a0  Peters Township High School (No. 382 nationally)\u00a0  Unionville High School (No. 403 nationally)\u00a0U.S. News and World Report&#8217;s methodology\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U.S. News and World Report&#8217;s ranking factors included college readiness, state assessment performance and graduation rate. College readiness is the most heavily weighted factor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The public high schools considered for the ranking had a 12th-grade enrollment of at least 15 students. Private high schools were not ranked because of limitations in publicly available data, U.S. News and World Report added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. News and World Report&#8217;s latest annual list of the best high schools includes numerous from the Pittsburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-267830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267830","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=267830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}