US News & World Report Ranks Massachusetts High Schools

U.S. News & World Report's annual "Best High Schools" list has been revealed.

While not being ranked in the list, both Foxborough High and Foxborough were listed in the study,

High schools in the area that made the state's top 25 include Hopkinton (third), Dover-Sherborn (sixth), Sharon (seventh), Medfield (16th) and Westwood (20th).

Foxborough High was near the Massachusetts average in all four categories. The study looked at student-teacher ratio at 869 students to 68 teachers for a 13.1 score, college readiness, 29.1 as 37-percent took advanced placement classes and 28-percent were proficient, English proficient earned a 3.1 wiith 86 proficient and 14-percent not.

The Foxborough Charter School earned a 15.1 score. They were larger than average in the student-teach ratio at 15.1 percent with 1,139 students to 77 teachers. They were above the Massachusetts in all of the other categories. In college readiness, it was a score of 58.1 percent with 74-percent tested and 58-percent passing. In English prociency, they were 3.6, with 91 proficient and nine-percent not. In math, they were 97-proficient and three-percent not.

Overall, a specific methodology was used to formulate the list, which in the past has generated controversy. U.S. News & World Report partnered with the American Institutes for Research, a Washington D.C.–based social science research group to create its rankings of 22,000 public high schools.

Specifically, the state rankings are based on the school's nationwide rankings, and the rankings are based on data from the 2009 to 2010 school year, according to the magazine's website.