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From the Washington Post – May 2011

There are about 30,000 high schools in the U.S.

More than 20 Triangle area schools have made The Washington Post’s 2011 Challenge Index rankings of the nation’s top high schools.

Raleigh Charter High School was the lone area school in the top 100 on the annual list, which previously was published in Newsweek magazine. The recently released rankings are developed by taking the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and other college-level tests taken and dividing by the number of graduating seniors.

Here is the list of Triangle schools:

* Raleigh Charter, 54

* Carrboro, 154

* Enloe in Raleigh, 155

* East Chapel Hill, 158

* Woods Charter in Chapel Hill, 190

* Chapel Hill, 278

* Jordan in Durham, 454

* Green Hope in Cary, 466

* Durham School of the Arts, 661

* Broughton in Raleigh, 702

* Panther Creek in Cary, 846

* Franklin Academy in Wake Forest, 1146

* Athens Drive in Raleigh, 1342

* Holly Springs, 1466

* Millbrook in Raleigh, 1567

* Apex, 1613

* Wakefield in Raleigh, 1642

* Riverside in Durham, 1622

* Northern in Durham, 1662

* Middle Creek in Apex, 1630

* Cary, 1709

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