Laguna Beach High School Ranked Among Nation's Best

Laguna Beach High School is among the nation’s top schools, according to rankings released by the Washington Post.

The newspaper recently released the standings for schools that surpass 93 percent of other public high schools in children taking advanced placement and baccalaureate classes.

In its formula to determine the rankings, The Post divides the number of advanced placement, international baccalaureate or other college-level tests a school gave in 2010 by the number of graduating seniors.

Only 7 percent of the approximately 27,000 U.S. public high schools qualified for the list, and the number only goes up to 1,905. Laguna Beach High School came in at 725.

The Washington Post cited Laguna Beach High School's average SAT score of 1,734 in placing the school on the list.

Local school rankings on the Washington Post report include:

Oxford Academy 18

Newport Harbor 634

Laguna Beach 725

Capistrano Valley 765

San Clemente 777

Fountain Valley 831

Laguna Hills 841

Dana Hills 880

Los Alamitos 1093

Aliso Niguel 1180

Huntington Beach 1437

The Washington Post list is available here:
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/highschoolchallenge/