States by national top-500 schools
- California: 73 in the national top 500, 1,598 ranked
- Texas: 67 in the national top 500, 1,591 ranked
- Florida: 41 in the national top 500, 662 ranked
- New Jersey: 30 in the national top 500, 415 ranked
- Illinois: 22 in the national top 500, 675 ranked
- Massachusetts: 20 in the national top 500, 353 ranked
- Ohio: 17 in the national top 500, 619 ranked
- Arizona: 16 in the national top 500, 365 ranked
- Georgia: 13 in the national top 500, 435 ranked
- North Carolina: 13 in the national top 500, 604 ranked
- Pennsylvania: 13 in the national top 500, 675 ranked
- Connecticut: 12 in the national top 500, 200 ranked
- Maryland: 12 in the national top 500, 211 ranked
- Michigan: 12 in the national top 500, 678 ranked
- Washington: 11 in the national top 500, 318 ranked
- Indiana: 10 in the national top 500, 402 ranked
- Minnesota: 10 in the national top 500, 420 ranked
- Tennessee: 10 in the national top 500, 380 ranked
- Virginia: 10 in the national top 500, 323 ranked
- New York: 8 in the national top 500, 1,232 ranked
- Wisconsin: 8 in the national top 500, 466 ranked
- Arkansas: 6 in the national top 500, 278 ranked
- Louisiana: 6 in the national top 500, 315 ranked
- Missouri: 6 in the national top 500, 355 ranked
- Oregon: 5 in the national top 500, 239 ranked
- Delaware: 4 in the national top 500, 44 ranked
- Idaho: 4 in the national top 500, 159 ranked
- Kentucky: 4 in the national top 500, 228 ranked
- Nevada: 4 in the national top 500, 82 ranked
- Oklahoma: 4 in the national top 500, 388 ranked
- South Carolina: 4 in the national top 500, 236 ranked
- Alabama: 3 in the national top 500, 293 ranked
- District of Columbia: 3 in the national top 500, 30 ranked
- Kansas: 3 in the national top 500, 295 ranked
- New Mexico: 3 in the national top 500, 136 ranked
- Nebraska: 2 in the national top 500, 145 ranked
- New Hampshire: 2 in the national top 500, 84 ranked
- Rhode Island: 2 in the national top 500, 57 ranked
- Utah: 2 in the national top 500, 163 ranked
- Hawaii: 1 in the national top 500, 53 ranked
- Iowa: 1 in the national top 500, 323 ranked
- Maine: 1 in the national top 500, 112 ranked
- Mississippi: 1 in the national top 500, 229 ranked
- West Virginia: 1 in the national top 500, 111 ranked
- Alaska: 0 in the national top 500, 69 ranked
- Colorado: 0 in the national top 500, 308 ranked
- Montana: 0 in the national top 500, 95 ranked
- North Dakota: 0 in the national top 500, 85 ranked
- South Dakota: 0 in the national top 500, 121 ranked
- Vermont: 0 in the national top 500, 46 ranked
- Wyoming: 0 in the national top 500, 54 ranked
National and state ranks come from the 2026-27 U.S. News & World Report Best High Schools edition. HighSchoolTrends adds each school's rank history across up to 8 editions under US News's current methodology (2019–2026) (where archived pages prove them, earlier medal-list ranks (2012–2018) are shown separately and never compared), and enrollment and demographic context from the NCES Common Core of Data.
Sources
- U.S. News & World Report, Best High Schools, 2026-2027 edition, 51 state lists, read Aug 20, 2026. Alabama list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Alaska list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Arizona list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Arkansas list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · California list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Colorado list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Connecticut list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Delaware list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · District of Columbia list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Florida list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Georgia list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Hawaii list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Idaho list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Illinois list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Indiana list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Iowa list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Kansas list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Kentucky list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Louisiana list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Maine list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Maryland list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Massachusetts list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Michigan list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Minnesota list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Mississippi list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Missouri list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Montana list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Nebraska list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Nevada list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · New Hampshire list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · New Jersey list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · New Mexico list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · New York list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · North Carolina list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · North Dakota list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Ohio list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Oklahoma list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Oregon list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Pennsylvania list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Rhode Island list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · South Carolina list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · South Dakota list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Tennessee list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Texas list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Utah list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Vermont list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Virginia list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Washington list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · West Virginia list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Wisconsin list (live page; it may have changed since we read it) · Wyoming list (live page; it may have changed since we read it)
Used for: counts of ranked schools, national top-500 counts by state, median school figures.