26 Texas Schools on Newsweek's List of 500 Best Public High Schools

Newsweek’s 2016 list of the best public high schools in the country includes 26 Texas schools, and 43 Texas schools made the magazine's "beating the odds" ranking. The lists were released Thursday morning.

These Texas public high schools made the 2016 Newsweek list of best schools:

• 22 Plano West Senior High School Plano
• 24 School for the Talented and Gifted Dallas
• 43 Edward S. Marcus High School Flower Mound
• 48 Westwood High School Austin
• 59 School of Science and Engineering Dallas
• 64 Michael E.Debakey High School for Health Professionals Houston
• 82 William P. Clements High School Sugar Land
• 107 Highland Park High School Dallas
• 111 Cedar Hill Collegiate High School Cedar Hill
• 117 Flower Mound High School Flower Mound
• 148 Clear Horizons Early College High School Houston
• 184 Andrew Carnegie Vanguard High School Houston
• 193 Vandegrift High School Austin
• 232 Uplift Education - North Hills Preparatory Irving
• 243 Coppell High School Coppell
• 250 Prosper High School Prosper
• 254 The Science Academy of South Texas Mercedes
• 256 Anderson High School Austin
• 307 Ranchview High School Irving
• 319 Alamo Heights High School San Antonio
• 351 Allen High School Allen
• 405 Claudia Taylor "Lady Bird" Johnson High School San Antonio
• 433 High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Houston
• 472 Ronald Reagan High School San Antonio
• 479 Cypress Ranch High School Cypress
• 495 Boerne-Samuel V. Champion High School Boerne

Newsweek’s rankings of the best public high schools in the country stand apart from other attempts to rank school performance. Newsweek uses legitimate and objective measurements to put together its annual ranking of the country’s best high schools.

Related: Newsweek Releases List Of 2016 Best Public High Schools In America

Newsweek looked at six measurements and weighted them to achieve a “college readiness index.” The rankings show how well high schools prepare students for college.

Those measurements and their weight are:

• Holding power: 10 percent
• Ratio of counselor/full-time equivalent to student enrollment: 10 percent
• Weighted SAT/ACT: 17.5 percent
• Weighted AP/IB/dual enrollment composite: 17.5 percent
• Graduation rate: 20 percent
• College enrollment rate: 25 percent

Newsweek used school performance data from the National Center for Education Statistics to narrow the list of schools.

Of those 6,477 schools, 4,760 were considered for the overall rankings, while 4,452 made the cut for another list of schools “beating the odds.” (Many schools made both lists.)

For the “beating the odds” rankings, a school’s college readiness scores were adjusted for how they compared against other schools with similar percentages of students eligible for free or reduced lunch.

These 43 schools made the "beating the odds" list:

• 5 School of Science and Engineering Dallas
• 9 Early College H. S. Laredo
• 10 Irma L. Rangel Young Women's Leadership School Dallas
• 20 Cedar Hill Collegiate High School Cedar Hill
• 23 School for the Talented and Gifted Dallas
• 25 Michael E. Debakey School for Health Professions Houston
• 28 IMPACT Early College High School Baytown
• 32 East Early College High School Houston
• 34 Valle Verde Early College High School El Paso
• 37 Early College High School Dallas
• 43 Harmony Public Schools Houston
• 45 The Science Academy of South Texas Mercedes
• 58 Mission Early College High School El Paso
• 65 Alief Kerr High School Houston
• 66 Anthony High School Anthony
• 76 South Texas High School for Health Professions Mercedes
• 82 Dr. Wright L. Lassiter Jr. Early College High School Dallas
• 96 Westwood High School Austin
• 106 Clear Horizons Early College High School Houston
• 113 Challenge Early College High School Houston
• 124 Travis Early College High School San Antonio
• 131 School of Business and Management Dallas
• 150 Uplift Summit International Preparatory Arlington
• 157 Del Valle High School El Paso
• 159 William P. Clements High School Sugar Land
• 164 Harmony Science Academy North Austin Pflugerville
• 191 Bryan Collegiate High School Bryan
• 223 KIPP Houston High School Houston
• 257 Mount Carmel Academy Houston
• 271 Eastwood Academy Houston
• 272 Andrew Carnegie Vanguard High School Houston
• 292 Los Fresnos High School Los Fresnos
• 293 South Texas Academy for Medical Professions San Benito
• 324 Fort Hancock High School Fort Hancock
• 334 Valley View High School Pharr
• 350 Veterans Memorial Early College High School Brownsville
• 361 Manor New Technology High School Manor
• 422 Shallowater High School Shallowater
• 440 High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Houston
• 444 North Houston Early College High School Houston
• 465 Booker T. Washington SPVA MAGNET Dallas
• 490 Mumford Mumford
• 496 Rosie C. Sorrells School of Education and Social Services Dallas