Newsome, Bloomingdale Make Newsweek's Top High Schools

Bloomingdale and FishHawk area parents and students have reason to be proud. Two of the area’s high schools made it on Newsweek's Top 2,000 list of the best high schools in the country.

Schools selected for the honor are “those that have proven to be the most effective in turning out college-ready grads,” the magazine’s website says. Honorees are judged on such factors as graduation rate, college acceptance rate and test scores.

Newsome was 273 on the list of 2,000. Chamberlain came in at 1,172. The top school in the state is the International Baccalaureate School at Bartow High. The No. 1 school in the nation, according to Newsweek, is in Bowling Green, Ky.

Other area schools on the list include Alonso, Plant and Sickles.

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