Northville Ranks as 16th Best Public High School in State

Northville High School made top spots among America's best public high schools in an annual ranking released last week by Newsweek and The Daily Beast.

Out of the 82 Michigan public high schools that made the list, Northville ranked in sixteenth place.

Northville High School, which was not included in last year's list, achieved 492nd place in its national ranking. This year's ranking highlights the best 2,000 public high schools in the nation, based on those that are most effective in turning out college-ready graduates, according to The Daily Beast.

"It’s a testimony to the number of students enrolled in Advanced Placement classes as well as those students performing well on AP testing," said Robert Behnke, assistant superintendent for Instructional Services. 

Here's a break-down of this year's ranking for Northville High School:

*Data for each of these indicators were standardized using z-scores, in order to measure the relative performance of each school, and then weighted to produce an overall Newsweek score for each school.

The list is based on six components:

• graduation rate - 25 percent
• college acceptance rate - 25 percent
• Advanced Placement (AP)/International Baccalaureate (IB)/Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) tests taken per student - 25 percent
• average SAT/ACT scores - 10 percent
• average AP/IB/AICE scores - 10 percent
• percent of students enrolled in at least one AP/IB/AICE course - 5 percent

Northville High School is in the process of adding an International Baccalaureate program, which is part of what determines a school's ranking.

"So our ranking only stands to improve," Behnke said.

See how Northville High School's ranking compares to public high schools across the country on this interactive map.