Hopkins Makes Washington Post’s High School Challenge List

, a national publication has honored as one of the top-performing schools.

The Washington Post’s High School Challenge ranked Hopkins 24th in the state for how it prepares students for college. Nationally, the school was ranked 1,634 out of 1,900 schools that made the list.

Only 9 percent of the country’s 22,000 schools made the list, including 26 in Minnesota.

To grade the schools, the Washington Post divided the number of college preparation tests that students took by the number of graduating seniors. Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests were all tallied. Schools with a score above 1.0 made the list.

Hopkins scored 1.282.

St. Louis Park ranked the highest in the state, with a score of 4.051. Schools in other neighboring districts that made the list were:

• Edina, second with 3.662 points
• Minnetonka, fifth with 2.737 points
• Robbinsdale Armstrong, seventh with 2.477 points
• Eden Prairie, 14th with 2.043 points
• Robbinsdale Cooper, 26th with 1.019 points

The list excludes magnets and charter schools that have average SAT or ACT scores greater than the highest average for normal enrollment schools—which translates to 1970 for the SAT or 29.5 for the ACT.

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