With a new academic year underway, the U.S. News and World Report has ranked Iowa City West as the top public high school in Iowa.

The U.S. News and World Report's Best High School rankings for 2025 assess the quality of public high schools based on several key metrics, each weighted differently. These metrics include college readiness and college curriculum breadth, state assessment proficiency and performance, underserved student performance, and graduation rate.

The study ranked the top high schools in the state and nationwide. Two Iowa City Community School District schools cracked the top 10, and one made it in the top 15.

West High School received an overall score of 97.34/100. making it the top high school in Iowa and 447th in national rankings out of 17,901 schools. In 202

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