U.S. News Best High Schools: Where Did Hightstown High School Rank?

EAST WINDSOR, NJ — On Tuesday U.S. News & World Report released the 2023-2024 Best High Schools rankings. And Hightstown High School made it to the list.

The high school was ranked 153rd in the state, with an overall score of 78.22/100.

The AP participation rate at Hightstown High School is 35 percent. The total minority enrollment is 71 percent and 29 percent of students are economically disadvantaged, according to the report.

Hightstown High School is the only high school in the East Windsor Regional School District.

Total enrollment is 1,611, with a student-teacher ratio of 12:1.

The top 42 schools in New Jersey also cracked the top 1,000 nationally. All told, there were 476 Garden State high schools on the U.S. News list. To see the top 100 public high schools in New Jersey click here.

In general, the highest-ranked schools had students who performed well on state assessments for math, reading and science, U.S. News said. They also performed strongly in meeting the needs of underserved students, including those who are Black, Hispanic or from low-income households. The schools had a breadth of curriculum offerings and high graduation rates, and their students performed well on Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams.

U.S. News said eleven of the top 20 ranked schools were charter or magnet schools.

In national rankings, the top five schools are, respectively: The Early College at Guilford, Greensboro, North Carolina; Signature School at Evansville, Indiana; The School for Advanced Studies in Miami; The Davidson Academy of Nevada at Reno; and Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology at Alexandria, Virginia.

Families can use the annual rankings to compare schools at the national, state and local levels on factors such as academic performance, graduation rates and college readiness, according to a news release. U.S. News reviewed 25,000 schools and ranked 17,680 of them, including 476 in New Jersey.

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