Star Valley High School Earns National Recognition

WYOMING SCHOOLS NAMED AS TOP HIGH SCHOOLS IN NATION

U.S. News and World Report analyzed 21,786 public high schools in 48 states plus the District of Columbia to name the nation’s top high schools. One hundred schools received gold medals, 461 received silver medals, 1,189 received bronze medals, and 37 received honorable mentions. Silver medal Sheridan High School in Sheridan County School District No. 2 was named Wyoming’s only silver medalist. Bronze medal winners in Wyoming are: Big Horn High School in Sheridan County School District No. 1, Burlington High School in Big Horn County School District No. 1, Hulett High School in Crook County School District No. 1, Lingle-Fort Laramie High School and Southeast High School in Goshen County School District No. 1, Powell High School in Park County School District No. 1, and Star Valley High School in Lincoln County School District No. 2. According to U.S. News, rankings are based on “the key principles that a great high school must serve all its students well, not just those who are college-bound, and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show the school is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators.”

Source: http://www.wsba-wy.org/newsletter.htm