Amid new and controversial policies for Texas classrooms, the Lone Star State’s high schools continue to crush in national rankings. Two of San Antonio’s own schools cracked the top 100 out of thousands listed in the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking — here they are.
BASIS San Antonio Shavano Campus, located at 4114 Lockhill Selma Road, San Antonio, TX 78230, was named No. 58 out of more than 24,000 public high schools in the country. According to U.S. News & World Report, the grades 6-12 charter school is the top high school in the San Antonio metro area and comes in seventh in the state. All of its students took and passed at least one AP exam, according to the ranking, and 99 percent of students show reading and science proficiency. 86 percent are proficient in math. BASIS San Antonio Shavano Campus maintained its 2024 ranking, except in one category — earning the No. 14 spot for charter high schools nationwide, down one from last year.
The ranking “is a testament to the remarkable efforts of our students, teachers, and families. These rankings show that a BASIS education equips students with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to excel at the highest levels,” BASIS Ed Texas CEO David Hubalik told MySA in an email. “We are honored to see Shavano leading the way for Texas and representing the strength of our network on the national stage.”
The No. 2 high school in San Antonio and eleventh-best in Texas is the Young Women’s Leadership Academy, according to the ranking. This San Antonio Independent School District campus, located at 2123 W. Huisache Ave., San Antonio, TX 78201, also has a perfect graduation rate and is the top school in SAISD. These accolades earned it the No. 98 spot in the nation amongst high schools.
MySA reached out to SAISD for comment, but did not hear back at the time of publication.
U.S. News & World report ranks high schools not just on graduation rate, but also on college readiness, state assessment proficiency and performance, the performance of underserved students (Black, Hispanic and from low-income households), college curriculum breadth (or the number of 12th graders who took and earned qualifying scores in a variety of AP or IB exams of different subjects).
Countless high schools in Austin, Dallas and Houston also topped the list. The School for the Talented and Gifted (TAG) in Dallas was the highest-ranking Texas high school at No. 9 in the country.