Medfield Senior High School Ranked in Nation's Top 500

With the school year just around the corner, Newsweek has released its annual list of the top 500 public high schools in the U.S. for 2015.

Medfield Senior High School is ranked No. 52 among the top 500 public high schools in the country. In all, 19 Massachusetts towns are included on the list, froThe complete Massachusetts list includes:

• 16. Dover-Sherborn Regional High School
• 52. Medfield Senior High School
• 54. Weston High School
• 67. Newton High School
• 75. Westwood High School
• 93. Hopkinton High School
• 115. Hingham High School
• 128. Shrewsbury Senior High School
• 139. Gronton Dunstable Regional High School
• 207. Longmeadow High School
• 253. Newburyport High School
• 278. Georgetown High School
• 315. Arlington High School
• 381. King Phillip Regional High School (Wrentham)
• 396. Marblehead High School
• 424. Ashland High School
• 448. Natick High School
• 451. Braintree High School
• 492. Chelmsford High School

See the full national rankings here.

The rankings were compiled using several metrics, including graduation rate, college enrollment rate, SAT and ACT scores, AP and IB scores and participation, teacher-student ratio and dropout rates.

This year’s rankings were weighted by:

• Enrollment Rate—25 percent
• Graduation Rate—20 percent
• Weighted AP/IB/Dual Enrollment composite—17.5 percent
• Weighted SAT/ACT composite—17.5 percent
• Change in student enrollment between 9th-12th grades, to control for dropout rates—10 percent
• Counselor-to-Student Ratio—10 percent