Just One-third of MHS Grads are College Ready

Seven Silicon Valley schools are among the Top 100 Best High Schools in California for 2012 as announced today by US News and World Report magazine.

Milpitas High School's state rank is 236.

Cupertino (Monta Vista and Cupertino HS) placed two schools in the top 100. Saratoga High School, Mountain View High School, Los Gatos High School and Los Altos High School also finished in the top group.

But the clear winner was Pacific Collegiate School in Santa Cruz, listed as the best high school in California. Pacific just missed finishing in the top 10 nationally of Best High Schools, ranked number eleven.

A three-step process determines the news magazine's Best High Schools ranking. The first two steps ensured that the schools serve all of their students well, using performance on state proficiency tests as the benchmarks. For those schools that made it past the first two steps, a third step assessed the degree to which schools prepare students for college-level work.

 

California Ranking School College Readiness Academic Performance 1 Pacific Collegiate/SC 100.0 935 16 Monta Vista HS/Cup 73.8 949 22 Saratoga HS 66.9 933 50 Mountain View HS 54.5 860 62 Cupertino HS/Cup 52.4 893 63 Los Altos HS 52.4 873 86 Los Gatos HS 47.8 884 236 Milpitas HS
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