Conestoga Ranked Among PA's Best by US News

U.S. News and World Report has once again ranked Conestoga High School among the state and the nation's best.

The school on Irish Road in Berwyn is ranked third best in Pennsylvania and 279th in the nation in the new poll, posted here on the US News Website.

The rankings are determined by a number of factors including: teacher to student ratio (15:1), college readiness, math and reading proficiency of students (based on standardized test results).

The top 26 ranked high schools in the nation had a 100 percent college readiness ranking. Conestoga's ranking is 54.3 percent.

The top ranked high school in the nation is in Dallas, Texas. Click here to see the entire US News list of nationally ranked high schools.

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