School lockers. Photo by Brett Levin/Flickr Creative Commons.
School lockers. Photo by Brett Levin/Flickr Creative Commons.

U.S. News & World Report named Eastern Technical High School as the top public high school in Maryland.

The Baltimore County public high school, located at 1100 Mace Ave. in Essex, was also named 123rd nationally.

U.S. News & World Report evaluated the nation’s high schools based on weighted criteria: college readiness (weighted 30%), state assessment proficiency (20%), state assessment performance (20%), college curriculum breadth (10%), underserved student performance (10%), and graduation rate (10%).

Eastern Technical High School ranked first in the state for college readiness, fifth for college curriculum breadth, third for state assessment proficiency, fifth for state assessment performance, and first for graduation rate (tying with Walt Whitman High School, Poolesville High School, and Thomas S. Wootton High School on that last criterion).

The top 10 schools in Maryland according to U.S. News & World Report are:

  1. Eastern Technical High School (123rd nationally)
  2. Walt Whitman High School (139th nationally)
  3. Poolesville High School (172nd nationally)
  4. Thomas S. Wootton High School (196th nationally)
  5. Winston Churchill High School (295th nationally)
  6. Richard Montgomery High School (364th nationally)
  7. Urbana High School (382nd nationally)
  8. Western School of Technology (437th nationally)
  9. River Hill High School (476th nationally)
  10. Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (590th nationally)

For a full list of rankings, visit U.S. News & World Report.

Marcus Dieterle is the managing editor of Baltimore Fishbowl, telling the stories of communities across the Baltimore region. Marcus helped lead the team to win a Best of Show award for Website of General...