Lower Moreland High School Ranks Among Nation's Best

In conjunction with Newsweek, the Daily Beast has released its "America's Best High Schools 2012" rankings, and LMHS made the cut.

Comparing statistics from 2,300 high schools all over the country, Lower Moreland High School made the top 1,000 coming in at No. 418 on the overall list. In Pennsylvania, it was the 10th-ranked school.

Other area schools that were ranked include: Harriton (250), Lower Merion (347), New Hope-Solebury (421), Council Rock North (529), and Council Rock South (594).

Newsweek said it factored in six criteria to reach the rankings.

"Three of those—the four-year graduation rate, college-acceptance rate, and number of AP and other high-level exams given per student—make up 75 percent of the overall score," it said in explaining the methodology.

"Average SAT/ACT and AP/college-level test scores count for another 10 percent each, and the number of AP courses offered per student is weighted as the final 5 percent. Because most of this data isn’t centrally available, we collected it from high-school administrators directly—about 15,000 of them—and received 2,300 responses."

To check out all of the schools that made the list, read more on The Daily Beast.