A San Antonio private school with nearly eight decades of history is getting some new recognition. The school is leading local rankings for college prep, STEM and diversity.<\/p>\n
Keystone School was named the No. 1 private high school for college prep in both the San Antonio area and Bexar County by Niche, according to a news release. The school also ranked No. 5 in Texas and No. 52 out of 3,986 schools nationwide for college prep.<\/p>\n
The ranking considers several factors tied to college readiness, including academics, student experience, college outcomes and opportunities for advanced coursework.<\/p>\n
Keystone also took the No. 1 spot locally for best high school for STEM, most diverse private high school and most diverse private K-12 school.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we\u2019re happy to receive this recognition, we\u2019re most proud of the way our students, faculty, staff, families, and alumni embody a commitment to excellence in all they do,\u201d Keystone Head of School Billy Handmaker said in the release.<\/p>\n
Located in San Antonio\u2019s Monte Vista Historic District, Keystone School was founded in 1948. It offers an accelerated curriculum for students from pre-K through 12th grade.<\/p>\n
Nearly 100% of Keystone students go on to attend a college or university ranked in U.S. News\u2019 Top 100 among national universities, liberal arts colleges or global universities, according to the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Antonio private school with nearly eight decades of history is getting some new recognition. The school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-448741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysastaff","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\/448741","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=448741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}