{"id":409852,"date":"2026-08-18T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409852\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:24:08","slug":"dfw-area-high-schools-earn-high-marks-in-national-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409852\/","title":{"rendered":"DFW-area high schools earn high marks in national rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.us.nylas.com\/l\/cfff4a890cc84406899d60d83bf5cbf7\/1\/331a8c8fc8f6a6fa83ae68aa153c42f0f55cb91145165861b2c90045095c84c9?cache_buster=1786971504\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. News &amp; World Report Best High Schools <\/a>rankings evaluated nearly 2,300 public high schools across Texas. Dallas-Fort Worth area schools showed a strong presence on both the national and statewide leaderboards.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas ISD\u2019s School for the Talented and Gifted (TAG) anchored the region&#8217;s placement by earning the #1 spot in Texas and #8 nationally. In addition, specialized magnet programs, charter schools, and public campuses across Tarrant, Collin, and Dallas counties secured high rankings statewide.<\/p>\n<p>DFW Metro Area Breakdown<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"f54f0\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"5b49b661e49f234aac13fec14c4365ba\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20523%20649'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/us-news-and-world-report-hs-rankings.png\" width=\"523\" height=\"649\" alt=\"US News and World Report HS rankings\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>  Key Takeaways for DFW FamiliesDallas ISD Magnet Strength: Dallas ISD placed four separate magnet programs inside the top 10 in Texas: TAG (#1), Science and Engineering (#4), Irma Lerma Rangel (#6), and Law Magnet (#7). Dallas ISD also claimed additional top-30 spots with Trinidad Garza Early College (#13), School of Health Professions (#20), Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy (#29), and Booker T. Washington SPVA (#30).Fort Worth ISD Standouts: Fort Worth ISD secured two spots in the state&#8217;s top 30 with World Languages Institute (#26) and Young Women&#8217;s Leadership Academy (#28).Charter &amp; Suburban Options: Open-enrollment charters and municipal programs such as Mansfield Frontier (#3), Grand Prairie Collegiate Institute (#14), Westlake Academy (#16), Uplift North Hills Prep (#23), and Imagine International Academy (#27) offer high-ranking options across Tarrant, Collin, and Dallas counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest U.S. News &amp; World Report Best High Schools rankings evaluated nearly 2,300 public high schools across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,57598,14243,8258,97452],"class_list":["post-409852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-disd","tag-fwisd","tag-mansfield-isd","tag-us-news-and-world-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}