Herron High School Ranks 26 in Newsweek's List of "America's Best High Schools"
Herron High School, a Mayor-sponsored Charter School on Indianapolis’s near northside, recently ranked 26 in Newsweek’s list of “America’s Best High Schools.”
Only 6 percent of the nation’s public schools—just over 1,600 schools—made the list. The report uses a “Challenge Index” to determine a school’s academic rigor based on Advanced Placement (AP) course participation. The “Challenge Index” divides the number of AP tests given by the number of graduating seniors in order to measure how hard school staffs work to challenge students with advanced placement college-level courses and tests. More than 40 percent of the Herron High School student body participated in college-level coursework last year.
Herron High School was founded in 2005 and provides a classical, liberal arts education, including Latin, art, music and rhetoric, as well as rigorous math and science courses for students in grades 9 through 12. Like all Mayor-Sponsored Charter Schools, Herron High School is a public, tuition-free school open to all students.
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