Newsweek Ranks Aliso Niguel High School Among Nation's Top Schools

Newsweek named Aliso Niguel High School among the top 500 high schools in the nation this week.

The magazine enlisted a panel of experts to rate the country’s best high schools, finding Aliso Niguel High School to be the 217th best school in the nation. Aliso Niguel was among just a handful in the county to make the list.

The Newsweek panel is composed of Wendy Kopp of Teach for America;  Tom Vander Ark of Open Education Solutions and the former executive director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford professor and founder of School Redesign Network. The panel rates the schools based on their rates of graduation, college matriculation, advance-placement courses offered and taken and SAT and ACT scores, as well as AP/IB/AICE scores.

According to Newsweek, Aliso Niguel High School stands out for its student-teacher ratio of 34.5 students for every teacher and for its 98 percent graduation rate. The magazine also found roughly 94 percent of the school’s seniors are college bound. Aliso Niguel High School also stood out for having an average SAT score of 1,665.

O.C. School

City

Rank

University

Irvine

8

Troy

Fullerton

32

Northwood

Irvine

96

Los Alamitos

Los Alamitos

166

Corona del Mar

Newport Beach

172

Foothill

Santa Ana

190

Aliso Niguel

Aliso Viejo

217

Esperanza

Anaheim

240

Edison

Huntington Beach

317

Tustin

Tustin

450

Capistrano Valley

Mission Viejo

459