Elizabethtown Independent School District is celebrating recognition for Elizabethtown High School.
The high school was ranked the 17th best in the state of Kentucky by U.S. News and World Report.
The high school received an overall score of 89.88 out of 100 from the publication, which Elizabethtown Independent School District Director of Communications Mattie McCoart said is based on several factors.
“They rank those based on college readiness, state assessment efficiency and performance, underserved student performance, college curriculum breadth, and graduation rate,” McCoart said.
McCoart said the high school has shown consistency with its ranking in recent years.
“In the past five years, Elizabethtown High School has been ranked in the top 20 three times, so this honor of being ranked in the top 20 is not new to us, but we are continuing to work to excel from previous years, and so being ranked 17th is a big honor for us,” McCoart said.
U.S. News and World Report’s profile of Elizabethtown High School says the graduation rate is 93 percent, and 54 percent of students took at least one A.P. exam. The school was ranked 18th in college readiness.
McCoart said the push for success comes from both inside and outside of the classroom.
“It really does take staff, faculty, and families working together to excel and build on the tradition of excellence that we’ve built at Elizabethtown High School, and this ranking, being No. 17 in the state, just proves that our community really is working together,” McCoart said.
You can find the full rankings and the profile for Elizabethtown High School at www.usnews.com.
