Hillsborough High Schools Among Most Challenging in America

For the second year in a row, all of Hillsborough County's traditional public high schools are listed on The Washington Post's list of America's Most Challenging High Schools.

Plant High School led at 97^th place and has ranked in the top 100 every year since 2004.

Seven high schools moved up on the list, including Strawberry Crest from 1319 to 412; Tampa Bay Technical from 984 to 419; and Spoto from 829 to 614.

These rankings take into account the 22,000 public high schools nationwide. Only 9 percent of the nation’s high schools made the list.

The list is based on the Challenge Index, which is intended as a measure of excellence and equity. America's Most Challenging High Schools ranks schools based on a formula that adds the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and college-level tests administered at a school and divides them by the number of seniors who graduated that year.

The Washington Post's list of America's Most Challenging High Schools can be viewed at http://apps.washingtonpost.com/highschoolchallenge.