Marquette, Parkway South Rank No. 4 and 9 in Missouri in U.S. News Survey

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the location of Marquette High School

Marquette High School in Clarkson Valley was one of two Rockwood district schools—and the only school that serves Chesterfield students—to make the 2013 list of top-ranked Missouri schools released by U.S. News & World Report today.

Meanwhile, Parkway South High School was the only Parkway district school to make the top 26 in the magazine's survey, and, in fact, busted into the top 10 with a ranking of ninth.

Marquette High also made last year's list, ranked at No. 5. This year, the magazine ranked Marquette No. 4 in Missouri, followed by Rockwood's Eureka High. 

The magazine released its annual report of 2013 Best High Schools Rankings today. The Parkway district's other high schools—Central, West and North—did not appear among U.S. News' top 26 rankings. Among Rockwood schools, Lafayette High and Rockwood Summit did not appear in the national or state rankings.

U.S. News collaborated with the American Institutes for Research, a D.C.-based organization, to rank student performance on such criteria as state-mandated assessments, how the schools educated minority or poor students, and performance on advanced placement exams in order to develop the rankings.

• MORE: How U.S. News developed its ranking of high schools

While Marquette, which draws some of its student body from Ellisville, and Eureka were among the top five in Missouri, they ranked 526 and 542 respectively in the national ranking in the U.S. News survey.

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In addition to Marquette and Eureka at four and five, the top five in Missouri included Metro Academic and Classical High School in St. Louis at No. 1; Clayton High at No. 2; and Kirkwood High at No. 3.

NOTE: We will report more on the details of the survey as they become available.