The highest ranking general education school is Mountain Lakes High School in Morris County at 20th.
NJ Advance Media used a metric calculated by the state Department of Education called the “summative rating” to assign each school a ranking number between one and 358
The ratings measure how a school’s “summative score,” which is another measure of success calculated by the state, compares to other schools with the same grade levels.
Summative scores are calculated using standardized test scores, student academic growth, graduation rates and other factors, including chronic absenteeism. Those scores are on a scale of 1 to 100.