Mountain View High School Ranked in Top Five Percent of Nation's High Schools by Newsweek

Vancouver, Wash. – For the third year in a row, Mountain View High School (MVHS) has made it into the top five percent of Newsweek Magazine's annual high school ranking list. This year the school received its highest ranking to date, 752 out of the top 1500 high schools in the country.

Rankings are based primarily upon the AP (Advanced Placement) and IB (International Baccalaureate) programs at the schools. Mountain View's ranking places them in the top 10 high schools in Washington which includes all six of the high schools in the Bellevue area.

"We are extremely excited," said MVHS Associate Principal Mark Osborne. "The next highest ranking school in our region was ranked around 1400, we have seen steep movement upwards in our rankings over the course of the past three years. This is especially significant for our community because we have also seen our population of students on free and reduced lunch rise and we have an increased number of minority students taking the AP tests. It's a testament to how we continue to work to expand our AP program for all students."

The complete Newsweek list can be found at: http://www.newsweek.com/id/201160