If you could chose any state in the nation to send your kids to high school, your best bet is Massachusetts.
That’s according to a new study from U.S. News and World Report, which found that the state’s high schools, on average, were superior to those found in every other state.
This year the publication analyzed 17,000 high schools. In Massachusetts, 48.8 percent of them placed in the top 25 percent, outpacing runner-up Maryland, which had 43.7 percent of its schools in that top quarter, and third-ranked California, with 40 percent.
When it comes to individual high schools, Massachusetts doesn’t crack the U.S. News’ top 30. Boston Latin School, the top-rated high school in Massachusetts, was ranked 33rd in the nation. Next best in the state were Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School in Marlborough, ranked 157th, and Sturgis Charter Public School in Hyannis, ranked 216th.
The results differ from that of Boston magazine’s 2018 ranking of the state’s best public high schools, on which Dover-Sherborn was given the top slot. Boston’s ranking is compiled by third-party researchers.