Holmdel Ranks High in Newsweek Top High Schools

Holmdel High School ranked in the top 300 schools in the country, according to Newsweek and The Daily Beast.

Holmdel, which was recently left off of the U.S. News and World Report top high schools ranking, earned the 244 spot of 2,000 ranked schools.

According to the report, Holmdel has a 98 percent graduation rate with 99 percent of those students college bound. The average SAT score was 1764, average ACT score a 25.1 and the average AP score a 4.

Last year, Holmdel was ranked 179 in the nation after being left off the list in 2011 because the district office said they never got the survey.

Newsweek rankings use the four-year graduation rate, college acceptance rate, college-level tests (ex. AP tests) taken per student, the average score of those tests, the average SAT or ACT scores and the percentage of students enrolled in at least one AP course.

Holmdel High School was left off of the annual high school ranking published by U.S. News and World Report, despite last year's high ranking on that report.

Holmdel Principal Bill Loughran said correspondence with U.S. News and World Report led to the conclusion that state exam scores left the school off that list.

In New Jersey, High Tech High in Lincroft topped the Newsweek list with a ranking of 16th nationally. High Tech High was left off the list last year, because their administration said they never received the survey.

Biotechnology High School, which ranked 8 in the U.S. News and World Report national rankings, ranked 24 in Newsweek.

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