Homewood ranked as a Best High School by U.S. News & World Report

Homewood High School was ranked the fourth-best high school in Alabama in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of the best high schools in the country.

Among the 2014 U.S. News Best High Schools in Alabama, three were awarded gold medals and 12 received silver medals. Homewood High School received a silver award.

To produce the 2014 U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools rankings, U.S. News teamed up with the Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes for Research (AIR), one of the largest behavioral and social science research organizations in the world. The U.S. News rankings include data on more than 19,400 public high schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The national rankings are conducted through a three-step process. The first two steps ensured that the schools serve all of their students well, using performance on state proficiency tests as the benchmarks. For those schools that made it past the first two steps, a third step assessed the degree to which schools prepare students for college-level work. 

To read more about the Best High Schools in Alabama list, visit usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/alabama.