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Nearly 20 Bay Area High Schools Rank Among Nation's Best

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By NEIL JOHNSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: May 20, 2008

TAMPA - Nearly 20 high schools from the Tampa Bay area are among the top 1,400 in the nation, according to a ranking that uses the number of graduates and number of students who took advanced college placement tests.

Three schools, Hillsborough and Plant high schools and the Center for Advanced Technologies in St. Petersburg, ranked among the top 100 of the nation's 27,000 high schools, placing 34th, 70th and 22nd, respectively.

The ranking was developed by Newsweek contributing editor and Washington Post reporter Jay Matthews and has been used nationally in 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2005-08.

The index rates schools by dividing the number of students in a year who took either the Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or Cambridge tests by the total number of graduates.

Here are the local high schools by county and their rank:

Hillsborough County

•Hillsborough: 34th

•Plant: 74th

•King: 207th

•Bloomingdale: 378th

•Chamberlain: 487th

•Newsome: 626th

•Freedom: 644th

•Gaither: 653rd

•Plant City: 817th

•Armwood: 853rd

•Tampa Bay: Technical 990th

•Robinson: 1,202nd

•Wharton: 1,303rd

Pinellas County

•Center for Advanced Technologies: 22nd

•Palm Harbor University: 208th

•St. Petersburg: 303rd

•Gibbs: 1,164th

Pasco County

•Land O' Lakes: 483rd

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