In its 2015 rankings of best high schools, U.S. News & World Report has awarded a Silver Medal to T. C. Roberson High School as one of the top schools in the state and the nation.
Overall, Roberson placed #26 in North Carolina out of 591 high schools and #1186 in the nation out of more than 29,070 high schools.
The U.S. News & World Report annually highlights top-performing public schools on a state and national level. U.S. News differentiates high schools with gold, silver, and bronze medals, using gold medals to indicate the greatest level of college readiness. In the 2015 U.S. News Best High Schools rankings for North Carolina, there are 14 school earning gold medals, 26 schools with silver medals, and 100 with bronze medals.
“While it is humbling to be recognized for our success in helping students to be career and college ready, it is also a fantastic opportunity to credit all of our phenomenal teachers, administrators, and staff who work tirelessly to help prepare these incredible students to be successful after graduation,” said Amy Rhoney, principal of Roberson High School.
U.S. News said in order to create the 2015 Best High Schools rankings, it worked with RTI International, a North Carolina-based research firm. New this year, the Best High Schools methodology was updated to reduce volatility in the rankings from year to year. RTI implemented the U.S. News comprehensive rankings methodology, which is based on these key principles: that a great high school must serve all of its students well, not just those who are college bound, and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show it is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators. A complete listing of the U.S. News & World Report state rankings is found here.
Last month, Roberson was ranked #34 in the state by The Washington Post as a Most Challenging High School and the only high school recognized in Western North Carolina. The index score is a composite of factors that include the number of students who qualify for lunch subsidies and the number of college-level tests given and passed at a school in the previous calendar year divided by the number of graduates that year. To learn more about this ranking, click here.