Magazine ranks two Metro schools as nation's best

By JAIME SARRIO • Staff Writer (Tennessean) • May 20, 2008 Two Metro Nashville schools earned a spot in the top 25 of Newsweek’s list of America’s best public high schools, released this week. Martin Luther King Jr. ranked 23rd while nearby Hume-Fogg took the 24th slot. Both schools are academic magnets, meaning they have selective entrance processes. The schools were the highest placeholders in Tennessee. The Newsweek list is devised using the number of Advanced Placement and or International Baccalaureate tests taken by students at a school in 2007 divided by the number of graduating seniors. Rounding out Tennessee’s top five is Brentwood High School in Brentwood, which placed 187th, Hillsboro High in Nashville at 390th and Ravenwood High in Brentwood at 465th. BASIS Charter School in Tucson, Ariz., took first place. Contact Jaime Sarrio at 726-5964 or jsarrio@tennessean.com