PA's Most Challenging School Is In Philadelphia, Washington Post Says

PHILADELPHIA – New rankings from the Washington Post have looked at high schools across the country and listed them by most challenging to least challenging. Looking at Pennsylvanian specifically, the best school the state is right in Philadelphia.

According to the Post, Julia R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School is Pennsylvania's most challenging school.

Masterman was also ranked 265th nationally, according to the Post.

Rounding out the top five Pennsylvania schools are Harriton HS in Bryn Mawr (2nd), Radnor HS in Wayne (3rd), Phoenixville High School (4th), and Conestoga High School in Berwyn (5th).

You can see all of the PA schools ranked here.

The ranks look at how students are challenged in the schools.

A ratio of 1.000 means the school had as many tests as graduates.

Masterman's enrollment of 1,189 was complemented by 13 AP courses, according to the study. Their "index" measurement, which determined their placing, was 4.519; the school, therefore, had about that many tests per graduating student.

The high school touts a perfect 100 percent four-year graduation rate.

Additionally, 100 percent of its students attend a four-year college upon graduation.

See the Post's full report here.

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