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Newsweek Magazine: five NN high schools are "top of the class"

(May 22, 2008) --  For the fourth year in a row, Newsweek magazine¹s list of top public high schools includes five Newport News schools. Newsweek ranked high schools measured by enrollment as well as access to Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate classes.

Warwick High School, ranked at 349, is highest among schools in Newport News. Menchville High School ranked 470, Woodside High School 947, Denbigh High School 1225, and Heritage 1064, out of appoximately 27,000 high schools in the nation.

Schools on Newsweek's list, compiled of 1,300 schools, represent the top 5 percent of public high schools in the nation.

Read more in the following publications:

- Newsweek:  The Top of the Class
- Daily Press:  Five NN schools listed in Newsweek rankings


  

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