Three Vermilion high schools receive bronze medal recognition from U.S. News and World Report Magazine

Three Vermilion Parish high schools received recognition from U.S. News and World Report Magazine this week.
Each year the U.S. News releases new numerical rankings of the top public high schools nationally and statewide.
Among the 2015 U.S. News Best High Schools, Louisiana has four gold, five silver and 81 bronze medal schools.
Vermilion Parish did not have any gold or silver medal schools, but it did have three bronze medal high schools.
They were Abbeville High School, Erath High School and Gueydan High School.
The top ranked in Louisiana was Ben Franklin in New Orleans with a gold medal.
The top ranked Louisiana public schools were from the New Orleans area.
The magazine’s rankings take into account test scores, demographics -- schools are rewarded when low-income students and students of color do well -- and college preparation as measured by participation and pass rates for Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams.
The goal is to measure “how well high schools serve all of their students, not just those who are planning to go to college,” according to the magazine’s website.
The magazine reviewed 29,070 public high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Some of those schools had to be eliminated from consideration, mainly because they were too small to be analyzed.
This reduced the count to 19,753, which is the total number of public high schools across the country that had high enough 12th-grade enrollment and/or sufficient enrollment in other grades during the 2012-13 school year to be eligible for the rankings.