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Duluth HS Ranked No. 9 in Georgia

Nine Gwinnett schools ranked among 'Best' in nation by U.S. News & World Report. Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology in Lawrenceville No. 3 in nation.

If your children attend high school in Gwinnett County, they may attend one of the best schools in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report. And if they attend Duluth High School, they are studying at the No. 9 ranked high school in the state.

Nine high schools in Gwinnett County Public Schools were rated highly by U.S. News & World Report.

The rankings were released April 23. U.S. News & World Report magazine reviewed 21,035 public high schools for its 2013 lists. Eighty-eight Georgia high schools are included in the rankings.

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The Gwinnett County schools ranked are:

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  • No. 1 in Georgia; No. 3 in nation
  • College readiness: 100 percent (percentage of students who took and passed AP tests)
  • For more on this school's data, click here.

Norcross High School:

  • No. 8 in Georgia; No. 460 in nation
  • College readiness: 47.2 percent
  • For more on this school's data, click here.

Duluth High School:

  • No. 9 in Georgia; No. 473 in nation
  • College readiness: 46.7 percent
  • Ranked No. 10 in Georgia in 2012
  • For more on this school's data, click here.

Parkview High School:

  • No. 10 in Georgia; No. 489 in nation
  • College readiness: 46.1 percent
  • For more on this school's data, click here.

Peachtree Ridge High School:

  • No. 11 in Georgia; No. 578 in nation
  • College readiness: 43.2 percent
  • For more on this school's data, click here.

Berkmar High School:

  • No. 13 in Georgia; No. 611 in nation
  • College readiness: 42.2 percent
  • For more on this school's data, click here.

Meadowcreek High School:

  • No. 19 in Georgia; No. 1,132 in nation
  • College readiness: 30.4 percnet
  • For more information on this school's data, click here.

Shiloh High School:

  • No. 42 in Georgia, No. 1,348 in nation
  • College readiness: 26.7 percent
  • For more on this school's data, click here.

South Gwinnett High School:

  • No. 36 in Georgia, No. 1,816 in nation
  • College readiness: 20.2 percent
  • For more on this school's data, click here.

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Learn how U.S. News & World Report calculated the Best High Schools rankings by clicking here.

(Duluth Patch Editor Faye Edmundson contributed to this report.)

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