(posted December 8, 2008)

Green Sea Floyds High School is one of 19 South Carolina high schools to make US News & World Report’s annual ranking of America's Best High Schools. The list was posted on US News & World Report’s web site December 4 and appears in its December 8 printed edition.

Green Sea Floyds High School earned a bronze medal in a comparison of more than 21,000 public high schools across the country. Seventeen other high schools received silver or bronze medals while Charleston County’s Academic Magnet High ranked ninth among the magazine's top 100 "gold" schools.

The magazine and its partner in the rankings project, School Evaluation Services, examined 21,069 public high schools in 48 states. The rankings are based on comparisons of students' test scores to state averages and their participation in and performance on Advanced Placement tests.

The 100 high schools with the highest college readiness scores were ranked and awarded gold medals, and the next 504 top-performing high schools received silver medals. Bronze medals went to 1,321 schools. South Carolina ranked twentieth nationwide for its number of silver or gold schools.