{"id":221260,"date":"2026-08-20T00:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T00:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/the-10-best-high-schools-in-georgia-see-us-news-world-report-rankings-savannah-morning-news\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T00:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T00:44:14","slug":"the-10-best-high-schools-in-georgia-see-us-news-world-report-rankings-savannah-morning-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/the-10-best-high-schools-in-georgia-see-us-news-world-report-rankings-savannah-morning-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 best high schools in Georgia. See US News & World Report rankings – Savannah Morning News"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are hundreds of high schools<\/a> across Georgia<\/a>, but which ones are top of the class?
On Tuesday, U.S. News & World Report<\/a> released its latest rankings of best high schools<\/a> in the nation. The platform partnered with RTI International to computing an overall score out of 100 with 30% based on college readiness, 20% for state assessment proficiency and state assessment performance, and 10% for college curriculum breadth, undeserved student performance, and graduation rate. Here are the Peach State’s top 10.
1st in Georgia<\/span>:<\/strong> Located in Lawrenceville, it ranks 7th in the nation and 12th best in STEM high schools in the U.S. Scores include 100% graduation rate, 99% science proficiency, 98% reading proficiency, 30% math proficiency, 100% took at least one AP exam and 99% passed at least one.
2nd in Georgia<\/span>:<\/strong> Columbus ranked 70th overall in the nation. Scores include 100% graduation rate, 97% math proficiency, 94% reading proficiency, 88% science proficiency, 97% took at least one AP exam and 85% passed at least one.
3rd in Georgia<\/span>:<\/strong> Located in Alpharetta and ranked 112th in the nation. Scores include 98% graduation rate, 91% science proficiency, 88% reading proficiency, 82% math proficiency, 98% took at least one AP exam and 89% passed at least one.
4th in Georgia<\/span>:<\/strong> Located in Augusta and ranked 124th in the nation. Scores include 100% graduation rate, 90% math proficiency, 88% reading proficiency, 83% science proficiency, 97% took at least one AP exam and 71% passed at least one.
5th in Georgia<\/span>:<\/strong> Located in Cumming and ranked 154th in the nation. Scores include 100% graduation rate, 92% reading proficiency, 90% science proficiency, 89% math proficiency, 87% took at least one AP exam and 71% passed at least one.
6th in Georgia<\/span>:<\/strong> Located in Jonesboro and ranked 227th in the nation. Scores include 100% graduation rate, 94% math proficiency, 92% science proficiency, 89% reading proficiency, 76% took at least one AP exam and 54% passed at least one.
7th in Georgia<\/span>:<\/strong> Located in Avondale Estates and ranked 257th in the nation. Scores include 97% graduation rate, 86% reading proficiency, 66% science proficiency, 49% math proficiency, 100% took at least one AP exam and 76% passed at least one.
8th in Georgia<\/span>:<\/strong> Located in Johns Creek and ranked 318th in the nation. Scores include 98% graduation rate, 80% reading proficiency, 76% science proficiency, 72% math proficiency, 80% took at least one AP exam and 70% passed at least one.
9th in Georgia<\/span>:<\/strong> Located in Suwanee and ranked 349th in the nation. Scores include 98% graduation rate, 83% reading and science proficiencies, 69% math proficiency, 79% took at least one AP exam and 69% passed at least one.
10th in Georgia<\/span>:<\/strong> Located in Savannah and ranked 361st in the nation. Scores include 99% graduation rate, 80% reading proficiency, 75% science proficiency, 31% math proficiency, 98% took at least one AP exam and 77% passed at least one.
Miguel Legoas is a Deep South Connect Team Reporter for USA Today. Find him on Instagram @miguelegoas and email at<\/em>mlegoas@gannett.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em>
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There are hundreds of high schools across Georgia, but which ones are top of the class?On Tuesday, U.S. News & World Report released its latest rankings of best high schools in the nation. The platform partnered with RTI International to computing an overall score out of 100 with 30% based on college readiness, 20% for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}