Niche.com has released its rankings of the best public high schools in California, and nine Bay Area schools made up the top 20.

Niche used data from the United States Department of Education to rank over 900 schools.

Academics comprised 60 percent of a school’s ranking. Also taken into account were things like school culture and teachers.

First in the Bay Area, and No. 2 overall, is Henry M. Gunn High in Palo Alto. It was ranked No. 1 overall for best teachers, followed by neighboring Palo Alto High.

The top East Bay school was Orinda’s Miramonte, which ranked fifth overall.

Saratoga High and Los Altos High were seventh and 10th.

Rounding out the Bay Area top 10 were Los Gatos at 13th in the state.

Two more East Bay schools were San Jose’s Lynbrook at 14th and Moraga’s Campolindo at 16th.

The top public high school in San Francisco was Lowell.

And Marin County’s Redwood High is the top North Bay school at 21st overall in the state.

All of these schools earned an A+ ranking.

By the way, the most diverse school in the Bay Area is El Cerrito High School, the sixth-most diverse school in the state.

Full list here: https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-public-high-schools/s/california/

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