The latest ranking in high schools provides further evidence of Boston’s prominence in education

Greater Boston high schools are highly represented in Newsweek‘s “America’s Top Schools 2015,” with six schools ranking in the top 100 and 17 total amongst the top 500.

Here are the schools, along with their ranking:

1. Dover-Sherborn Regional High – 16
2. Medfield Senior High – 52
3. Weston High – 54
4. Newton North High (Newtonville) – 67
5. Westwood High – 75
6. Hopkinton High – 93
7. Hingham High – 115
8. Shrewsbury Sr. High – 128
9. Groton Dunstable Regional – 139
10. Newburyport High – 253
11. Georgetown High School – 278
12. Arlington High – 315
13. King Philip Regional High (Wrentham) – 381
14. Ashland High – 424
15. Natick High – 448
16. Braintree High – 451
17. Chelmsford High – 492

Newsweek‘s rankings utilized a metric that included the college readiness of students, the school’s graduation rate, the percent of students who were college bound and, most interestingly, the share of students who live in poverty. That final metric differed substantially across Boston’s schools. At Shrewsbury Sr. High, for instance, 16.7 percent of students live in poverty, whereas at Medfield, only 2 percent of students live in poverty.

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