Camden Hills, Oceanside named top 10 schools in Maine
The U.S. News and World Report rankings for high schools have been released and two local schools earned top 10 rankings within the state.
Each of the local schools earning statewide rankings also received rankings at the national level.
Last year, six area high schools were ranked within the top 75.
Earning the accolades this year were Camden Hills Regional High School and Oceanside High School.
Camden Hills rose one spot from seventh to sixth in the statewide rankings, while Oceanside leaped from 28th last year to 10th this year.
In the national rankings, Camden Hills placed 6,048th (down from 1,439) and Oceanside placed 7,728th (up from 4,320).
This year, U.S. News & World Report looked at data on more than 24,000 public high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia before ranking nearly 18,000 schools based on six factors.
The six factors, and the percentage of how much those factors weigh into the rankings, includes college readiness (30%), math and reading proficiency (20%), math and reading performance (20%), underserved student performance (10%), college curriculum breadth (10%) and graduation rate (10%).
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