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Eastview Ranked Among Newsweek's Top High Schools

Eastview stands at No. 332 nationally, and sixth in Minnesota, according to Newsweek's ranking.

has been ranked as one of the 1,000 best public high schools in the nation by Newsweek magazine.

Out of the 1,000 schools ranked this year by Newsweek, Eastview was ranked sixth of the 20 Minnesota schools to make the list, and at 332 nationally. Other Minnesota high schools that made the 2012 list ahead of Eastview include No. 154 Edina, No. 190 Minnetonka and No. 290 St. Louis Park.

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Lakeville North came in at 294, Lakeville South at 423, and Eastview's fellow District 196 schools Eagan (730) and Rosemount (850) also made the list.

Newsweek rated Eastview a 0.6 on its scale; the school reported a graduation rate of 99 percent, 0.5 AP or IB tests given per student, 95 percent of graduates as college-bound, an average ACT score of 24 and an average AP test score of 3.8 out of 5.

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Eastview was absent from last year's list, when Apple Valley High School . Apple Valley is not on this year's list.

Eastview also made the list in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008, according to its website.

also recently —and the 395th best in the country—by U.S. News and World Report. Apple Valley High School was 36th in the state in that ranking and 1,392nd in the nation.

In compiling its 2012 rankings, Newsweek asked principals, superintendents and high school administrators across the U.S. to provide data from the 2010-11 academic year. More than 2,300 schools took part in the survey, from which the top 1,000 institutions were gleaned.

Schools were ranked according to six components: graduation rate, college matriculation rate, AP/IB/AICE tests taken per graduate, average SAT/ACT scores, average AP/IB/AICE scores and number of AP/IB/AICE courses offered. This was the second year Newsweek utilized the new methodology to determine its rankings.

See the full list of Newsweek's best high schools here.


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