{"id":411542,"date":"2026-08-20T04:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/411542\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T04:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T04:38:14","slug":"two-san-antonio-schools-named-in-americas-top-100-on-u-s-news-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/411542\/","title":{"rendered":"Two San Antonio schools named in America&#8217;s top 100 on U.S. News list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Antonio has two of the top 100 high schools in the country, according to\u00a0the latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-high-schools\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. News and World Report<\/a>\u00a0rankings released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>BASIS San Antonio Shavano and the Young Women\u2019s Leadership Academy are featured in the 20th annual edition of the national list, which\u00a0evaluated\u00a0more than 27,000 schools\u00a0nationally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA great high school educates all of its students from different social and economic backgrounds, exposing them to challenging coursework on the path to graduation,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<p>The report ranked schools based on student performance on state assessments and college-level exams and on graduation rates.<\/p>\n<p>BASIS San Antonio Shavano moved up one spot in the national ranking to No. 57 in the country. It was ranked 8th in Texas and the top school in the San Antonio area. It also topped the list of Texas charter schools. BASIS Shavano tied for having the country\u2019s highest proportion of seniors who scored highly on at least one college-level exam.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio Independent School District\u2019s Young Women\u2019s Leadership Academy was the No. 100 best high school in America\u00a0\u2014 down two spots from last year. The all-girls school, located on the West Side, is listed as the 11th best high school in the state. It tied for the best graduation rate in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both BASIS San Antonio Shavano and the Young Women\u2019s Leadership Academy have scored A\u2019s on Texas&#8217; state accountability ratings for the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio also has five of the best high schools in the state, per U.S. News and World Report:<\/p>\n<p>U.S. News bases its ranking on six measures: the proportion of students who took and scored highly on an Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate exam; the percentage of students who took and earned high scores on multiple AP or IB exams; student scores on\u00a0state exams; how school test scores compare to U.S. News predictions; how well Black, Hispanic and low-income students performed on state tests; and a school\u2019s 2024 graduation rate. State testing data is based on results from the 2023-24 year.<\/p>\n<p>Central Magnet School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee\u00a0was crowned as the best high school in the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio has two of the top 100 high schools in the country, according to\u00a0the latest\u00a0U.S. News and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-411542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411542","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=411542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}