An Apache Junction charter school has the highest rating of high schools in the city on U.S. News and World Report’s annual best public high schools list.

Imagine Prep Superstition, 1843 W. 16th Ave., ranked 217th out of 360 Arizona high schools on the list.

Apache Junction High School, 2525 S. Ironwood Drive, in the Apache Junction Unified School District, is ranked 239th.

The only other high school in Apache Junction is Apache Trail High School, 945 W. Apache Trail, which was not ranked in the report.

The publication ranked nearly 17,660 out of more than 24,000 reviewed public high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The list includes a mix of charter, magnet and traditional schools.

Imagine Prep Superstition has a grade 9-12 enrollment of 297; and Apache Junction High School has a grade 9-12 enrollment of 999, according to the report.

The overall scores are based on the following six criteria: college readiness, state assessment proficiency, state assessment performance, underserved student performance, college curriculum breadth and graduation rate.

Using this methodology, schools earned an overall percentile score between 0 and 100 at two decimal places, according to the report. Scores below the 25th percentile are listed with a ranking range rather than a numerical rank, and each percentile includes 177 schools, so small changes due to any factor can result in big moves within the rankings, the report said.

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