{"id":268506,"date":"2026-08-20T00:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T00:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268506\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T00:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T00:14:11","slug":"bchs-named-top-high-school-in-albany-metro-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/268506\/","title":{"rendered":"BCHS named top high school in Albany metro region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Bethlehem-Central-High-School-ranked-1-high-school-in-Capital-Region-by-U.S.-News-Wo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-69414 size-large\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Central High School has been rated the number one high school in the Albany metro area by\u00a0U.S. News &amp; World Report\u00a0in the national 2026-27 Best High Schools list. The Albany metro area includes 47 public high schools in the greater Capital Region. The high school was also ranked #75 in New York State.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-high-schools\/new-york\/districts\/bethlehem-central-school-district\/bethlehem-central-senior-high-school-13524\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online rankings<\/a> were released on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Central High School\u2019s high rating included exceptional performance by students in core classes. Mathematics proficiency (94%), reading proficiency (98%), science proficiency (96%), and a graduation rate of 97% all contributed to the #1 ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our hardworking students, faculty and staff on this year\u2019s honor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Central High School has been rated the number one high school in the Albany metro area by\u00a0U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[43998,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-268506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bchs-news","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268506","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=268506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}