Miami High School Ranks in Top 20 out of 1200 in Newsweek

So whatever "they've" said about Florida schools is now outdated information unless it involves talk about them being some of the best in the nation.

Coral Reef High School, known for being Miami’s only “mega-magnet” high school, was ranked number 20 out of The 1200 Top U.S. Schools in 2007 published by Newsweek.

The ranking system, designed according to a ratio devised by Washington Post's Jay Mathews is produced by counting the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school last year, 2006, divided by the number of graduating seniors. Coral Reef Senior High has already received top ratings from the Florida Department of Education for three consecutive years and is ranked number 1 in Miami-Dade County.

This Miami-Dade County public high school offers six different magnet programs such as International Baccalaureate, Leisure Medicine and Health Sciences, Legal and Public Affairs. And the campus located in southwest Miami, is one-of-a-kind. Built close to Biscayne Bay, it features a community park, as well as football, soccer, softball and baseball fields, and marine sports. Coral Reef is also close to Palmetto Golf Course, Florida’s Turnpike, Coral Reef Branch Library, and homes for sale in Cutler Ridge Pines and Cutler Bay Estates.


Amazingly, the rankings were flooded with Florida schools. There's actually a total of 18 Florida schools in the Top 100 of Newsweek's Top 1200 U.S. Schools!!

Coming in ahead of Coral Reef were Stanton College Prep at number 3, in Jacksonville; Suncoast Community at number 5, in Riviera Beach; Paxon School for Advanced Studies at number 15, in Jacksonville; Eastside in Gainsville at number 16; and Dreyfoos School of the Arts at 17, in West Palm Beach.

Number 22, Center for Advanced Technologies, in St. Petersburg, came in right after Coral Reef, and so did number 26, Hillsborough, in Tampa.


Further down the list, Spruce Creek in Port Orange came in at number 54, H.B. Plant in Tampa came in at number 64, Cocoa Beach in Cocoa Beach came in at number 65, St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg came in at number 66, Fort Myers in Fort Myers came in at number 67, MAST Academy in Miami was number 68, Nease in St. Augustine was number 78, Miami Palmetto in Miami was 79th, Cypress Creek in Orlando was number 86, and Buchholz in Gainesville was number 94.

So proud to hear, I'm buying a lottery ticket today.