Churchill High School Tops National Best Schools Lists

Winston Churchill High School does it again. 

Just a by the U.S. News and World Report, several other notable publications have placed the Potomac school at the top of their lists, according to a Montgomery County Public Schools release.

The Washington Post’s High School Challenge ranked WCHS at 98 of the top 100 schools in the country. The ranking system only includes schools that had at least the same number of college-level tests taken as the school had graduates -- meaning only 1,848 out of the nation’s 22,000 high schools are included in the rankings. All Montgomery County public high schools made the list.

Poolesville ranked at #54, Richard Montgomery is #77, Bethesda-Chevy Chase is #88, Walter Johnson is #89 and Winston Churchill is #98.

Newsweek and The Daily Beast also compile a ranking of America's Best High Schools, and placed WCHS at #150. The publications' website began ranking schools two years ago based on their success at preparing students for college. The list only ranks the top 1,000 high schools.

The nine MCPS schools on the America’s Best High Schools list are: Poolesville at #81, Winston Churchill at #150, Thomas S. Wootton at #212, Walt Whitman at #299, Richard Montgomery at #365, Bethesda-Chevy Chase at #434, Walter Johnson at #475), Northwest at #787 and Sherwood at #992.