Florida’s public high schools overall ranked sixth in the nation in U.S. News & World Report’s new 2019 report on the country’s best high schools released this morning. The Sunshine State earned the sixth spot — behind Massachusetts, Maryland, California, Connecticut and New Jersey — based on the percentage of its high schools that placed in the country’s top 25 percent of the more than 17,000 public high schools the magazine ranked. Florida had 555 ranked high schools and 204 were in the top quarter nationally.
