Tennessee's top 10 public high schools represent a mix of traditional, magnet and charter schools for 2025-26, according U.S. News & World Report.

All 10 of Tennessee's top public high schools ranked in the top 450 nationwide, including one that ranked in the top 10.

U.S. News & World Report just released its 2025-26 best public high schools rankings for the nation, and several schools in Tennessee are high on the list — including three that made the top 50.

U.S. News considered nearly 24,000 public high schools for this year's list and ultimately ranked roughly 18,000 of them, according to an Aug. 19 news release. The media company worked with RTI, a nonprofit global social science research firm, to compile the rankings. They considered key factors like college readiness measures, adva

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