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Best High Schools 2013: Newsweek/Daily Beast List

LOOK: Newsweek's 6 Best High Schools

Comparing how much students at one high school are learning, relative to students at another can be a tricky equation. Luckily, Newsweek and The Daily Beast reviewed statistics from over 5,000 high schools and did the math to rank the best high schools in the country in a list released Monday.

To determine a school's rank, Newsweek considered six main factors that included students' standardized test scores and statistics related to students' college readiness. From Newsweek:

The list is based on six components: graduation rate (25 percent), college acceptance rate (25 percent), AP/IB/AICE tests taken per student (25 percent), average SAT/ACT scores (10 percent), average AP/IB/AICE scores (10 percent), and percent of students enrolled in at least one AP/IB/AICE course (5 percent).

While last year's methodology considered the overall size of a school's curriculum, this year's methodology focused more specifically on how challenging the courses are. Newsweek took the number of students enrolled in at least one college-level course and divided that number by total enrollment. (Read more on the methodology.)

Newsweek's ranking was released shortly after U.S. News & World Report's annual list. While several schools ranked here are also included in U.S. News & World Report's ranking, its top six look dramatically different.

Scroll through Newsweek's top six below, and click over to Newsweek to check out the full list of the 2,000 best high schools in America.

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Newsweek's Best Public High Schools
6. School for Advanced Studies at Miami Dade College(01 of06)
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Miami, Fla.School Classification: Magnet, selectiveGraduation Rate (%): 100AP/IB Tests: 3.3College Bound (%): 100Average SAT: 1812Average ACT: 26.3Average AP: 2.8Subsidized Lunch (%): 46Newsweek Score: 4.31 (credit:<a href="http://www.mdc.edu/main/sas/" target="_blank" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="School for Advanced Studies" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb68562e4b0cf146676c493" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.mdc.edu/main/sas/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="5" data-vars-position-in-unit="9">School for Advanced Studies</a>)
5. School for the Talented and Gifted(02 of06)
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Dallas, TexasSchool Classification: Magnet, selectiveGraduation Rate (%): 90AP/IB Tests: 3.9College Bound (%): 100Average SAT: 1914Average ACT: 27.7Average AP: 3.4Subsidized Lunch (%): 35Newsweek Score: 4.42 (credit:<a href="http://teacherweb.com/TX/tagmagnet/main/apt7.aspx" target="_blank" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="School for the Talented and Gifted" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb68562e4b0cf146676c493" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://teacherweb.com/TX/tagmagnet/main/apt7.aspx" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="4" data-vars-position-in-unit="8">School for the Talented and Gifted</a>)
4. School of Science and Engineering Magnet(03 of06)
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Dallas, TexasSchool Classification: Magnet, selectiveGraduation Rate (%): 100AP/IB Tests: 3.9College Bound (%): 100Average SAT: 1786Average ACT: 26.8Average AP: 2.6Subsidized Lunch (%): 67Newsweek Score: 4.44 (credit:<a href="http://semagnetschool.org/" target="_blank" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="School of Science &#x26; Engineering Magnet" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb68562e4b0cf146676c493" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://semagnetschool.org/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="3" data-vars-position-in-unit="7">School of Science & Engineering Magnet</a>)
3. BASIS Scottsdale(04 of06)
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Scottsdale, Ariz.School Classification: Charter, lotteryGraduation Rate (%): 100AP/IB Tests: 3.1College Bound (%): 100Average SAT: 2152Average ACT: 31.7Average AP: 4.1Subsidized Lunch (%): N/ANewsweek Score: 4.57 (credit:<a href="http://basisscottsdale.org/national-rankings" target="_blank" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="BASIS Scottsdale" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb68562e4b0cf146676c493" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://basisscottsdale.org/national-rankings" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="2" data-vars-position-in-unit="6">BASIS Scottsdale</a>)
2. International Baccalaureate School at Bartow High(05 of06)
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Bartow, Fla.School Classification: Magnet, selectiveGraduation Rate (%): 100AP/IB Tests: 4.4College Bound (%): 100Average SAT: N/AAverage ACT: 30.3Average AP: 3.5Subsidized Lunch (%): N/ANewsweek Score: 4.81 (credit:<a href="http://www.ib-bhs.com/" target="_blank" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="IBS at Bartow High School" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb68562e4b0cf146676c493" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.ib-bhs.com/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="1" data-vars-position-in-unit="5">IBS at Bartow High School</a>)
1. The Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky(06 of06)
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Bowling Green, Ky.School Classification: Magnet, selectiveGraduation Rate (%): 100AP/IB Tests: 4College Bound (%): 100Average SAT: 2070Average ACT: 32Average AP: 4.5Subsidized Lunch (%): 15Newsweek Score: 4.84 (credit:<a href="http://www.wku.edu/academy/" target="_blank" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Gatton Academy" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb68562e4b0cf146676c493" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.wku.edu/academy/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="0" data-vars-position-in-unit="4">Gatton Academy</a>)
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