Newsweek has ranked the high schools nationally, but the criteria they used leaves Coventry High School off of their list.
East Greenwich High School (755), Portsmouth High School (1,244) and Lincoln High School (1,640) are the only Rhode Island schools in the Newsweek list. Narragansett, South Kingstown, Barrington and Exeter-West Greenwich — all of which joined East Greenwich in the Top 5 Rhode Island high schools, according to GoLocalProv — were left off the list. Coventry ranked 24th in the local list.
For its rankings, Newsweek sent out a survey to more than 5,000 high schools in the U.S., with about 2,500 schools responding in 2013. You can see the details about the ranking, and every other ranked high school by clicking on the markers in the interactive map above.
The survey scores were then weighted and calculated using several criteria including on-time graduation and college acceptance rates. In addition, instead of averaging the number of courses offered, this year Newsweek considered the percentage of students enrolled in AP, IB or Advance International Certificate courses. The final scores then determined Newsweek’s final rankings.
You can read more about Newsweek's methodology here.