A recent Newsweek magazine survey ranks six Allegheny County high schools among the 1,500 top U.S. public high schools.
The schools, which are in the top 6 percent of public schools nationwide, and their ranks are: Pine-Richland, 814; Upper St. Clair, 917; Quaker Valley, 1,163; Mt. Lebanon, 1,181; North Hills, 1,317; and North Allegheny, 1,326.
Schools are ranked according to a ratio: the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2008 divided by the number of graduating seniors.
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