by Dennis Dalman
Sartell High School made number 25 on the list of Minnesota’s top-100 high schools in 2024 in a rankings list published by U.S. News and World Report, a national media company.
The annual nationwide rankings of high schools and colleges are based on exhaustive research by the publication. U.S. News and World Reports’ rankings are created through weighted criteria, including college readiness, state assessment proficiency, state assessment performance, underserved student performance, college curriculum and graduation rate.
For its annual study, U.S. News and World Report gathers data from 25,000 high schools nationwide.
Sartell High School, ranking #1 in the best of high schools in the greater St. Cloud Metro Area, received a rating score of 91.13 based on the above criteria. The school garnered praise for its Advanced Placement courses and exams with a participation rate of 45 percent in those courses.
According to the report, the graduation rate at Sartell High School is 96 percent, math proficiency is 54 percent, reading proficiency is 65 percent and science proficiency is 56 percent.
The high school was ranked at #1,566 among the 25,000 schools that U.S. News and World Report studied in the United States.
Sartell High School was the only school in the central Minnesota area to make the top half of the 100 best-ranked schools. The others are mostly schools from the Twin Cities and suburbs next to or near the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. A few other schools rated in the top 25 are in Stillwater, Duluth, Forest Lake and Mankato.
Three other high schools in central Minnesota made it onto the top-100 list: Elk River (#58), Sauk Rapids-Rice (#75) and Princeton (#86).
