RHS Ranked Among Newsweek's Top High Schools

has been ranked as one of the 1,000 best public high schools in the nation by Newsweek magazine.

Out of the 1,000 schools ranked this year by Newsweek, Rosemount was ranked 17th of the 20 Minnesota schools to make the list, and at 850 nationally. Other Minnesota high schools that made the 2012 list include No. 154 Edina, No. 190 Minnetonka and No. 290 St. Louis Park.

Lakeville North came in at 294, Eastview at 332, Lakeville South at 423, and Eagan at 730. 

Newsweek rated Rosemount a 0.23 on its scale; the school reported a graduation rate of 95 percent, 0.3 AP or IB tests given per student, 91 percent of graduates as college-bound, an average ACT score of 23.7 and an average AP test score of 3.4 out of 5.

Rosemount was absent from last year's list and was also snubbed in a recent . 

In compiling its 2012 rankings, Newsweek asked principals, superintendents and high school administrators across the U.S. to provide data from the 2010-11 academic year. More than 2,300 schools took part in the survey, from which the top 1,000 institutions were gleaned.

Schools were ranked according to six components: graduation rate, college matriculation rate, AP/IB/AICE tests taken per graduate, average SAT/ACT scores, average AP/IB/AICE scores and number of AP/IB/AICE courses offered. This was the second year Newsweek utilized the new methodology to determine its rankings.

See the full list of Newsweek's best high schools here.