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Southern Maryland has nine of state’s top public high schools Posted by TBN Editor On 08/03/2018 Lexington Park, MD - Niche.com, a website that ranks and grades U.S. colleges, K-12 schools, neighborhoods and companies, recently released their 2019 Best Public High Schools in Maryland list. The list ranks schools up through 125 but provides a grade for every Maryland public school. Southern Maryland — Calvert County Public Schools, St. Mary’s County Public Schools and Charles County Public Schools — featured nine schools in the top 125. Charles County has two high schools on the list with La Plata High School at 57 and North Point High School at 44. La Plata received an overall of an A- and North Point an A. St. Mary’s County has one more than Charles with three high schools in the top 125. Those schools are Chopticon High School at 114, Great Mills High School at 89, and Leonardtown High School at 70. Chopticon received a B overall, Great Mills a B+, and Leonardtown an A-. Calvert County topped the list with all four public high schools ranking in the top 100 public high schools in Maryland. Their rankings are Calvert High School at 85, Northern High School at 80, Patuxent High School at 67, and Huntingtown High School at 28. Calvert and Northern both received a B+ grade overall, Patuxent received an A-, and Huntingtown an A. Huntingtown’s ranking of 28 was the highest out of all public high schools in Southern Maryland. Niche outlines the criteria they use when ranking and grading each school. They state that their ranking is “based on rigorous analysis of academic and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education along with test scores, college data, and ratings collected from millions of Niche users.” Their website also has available the different weight that is given to each category, with Academic Grade being weighted the highest at 60 percent of school’s grade. For the full list visit this web page Copyright © 2021 thebaynet.com. All rights reserved. Page 1.

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