U.S. News & World Report has come out with its 2014 list of the nation’s best public high schools, and 62 in Kentucky were eligible for a state ranking. Two in Fayette County received silver medals: Lafayette High School at No. 13 and Henry Clay High School at No. 14.
To produce the rankings, U.S. News teamed with the Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes for Research. The methodology is based on the key principles that a great high school must serve all of its students well and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show the school is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators.
They started out by analyzing 31,242 public high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. That number was reduced to 19,411 schools, which is the total number with high enough 12th-grade enrollment and sufficient data from the 2011-2012 school year to be eligible for the rankings.