From The Trussville Tribune staff reports
TRUSSVILLE –Just a week after posting the top graduation rate in Alabama, Hewitt-Trussville High School has been named the thirteenth best high school in the state by a national magazine.
U.S. News and World Report ranks the top schools, colleges and universities each annually.
According to the magazine, to produce the 2017 Best High Schools rankings, U.S. News & World Report teamed with North Carolina-based RTI International, a global nonprofit social science research firm.
“RTI implemented the U.S. News comprehensive rankings methodology, which is based on these key principles: that a great high school must serve all of its students well, not just those who are college bound, and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show it is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators,” the magazine reported.
HTHS was awarded a silver medal by the publication and a national ranking of 1430.
The overview stated that “students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement® course work and exams. The AP participation rate at Hewitt-Trussville High School is 55 percent. The student body makeup is 52 percent male and 48 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 16 percent. Hewitt-Trussville High School is the only high school in the city.”
According the data gathered in the report, Hewitt-Trussville has a 17 to 1 student to teacher ratio with an enrollment of 1,366. The subject proficiency for English was 82 percent while the state average was 50 percent. The subject proficiency in Math was 43 percent compared to a state average of 20 percent.
Read the criteria for the rankings here.
19 Comments
Harriet Marrs Mattox
Philip Jones, Taylor Palmer, Parker Jones
Taylor Palmer
That’s awesome!
John Alex Floyd
We were in the top 10. What happened?
Scott Buttram
At least once in the last two years, we weren’t ranked at all because the data was not available to meet the criteria. Also, in years past, magnet schools were not included. This year there are 4 magnet schools in the top 10. That’s rather ironic since the article says, “RTI implemented the U.S. News comprehensive rankings methodology, which is based on these key principles: that a great high school must serve all of its students well, not just those who are college bound…”
John Alex Floyd
Good pints but we were at one time number 6 in the state. I do not want our academics to slip. As you know we need to be a leader not a follower of great education progress in this state.
Meg O'Neal Pritchard
Awesome job teachers and administrators!
Brenda Townsend
Great !!!!! Wonderful school !!
Lynn Speck Brown
Cheryl Speck Schoen good picture of the high school
Scott Walls
They were just twelve off. Not too bad.
Janet Nelson Eubanks
Fantastic!
Kaye Rogers
Beautiful building
Becky Robertson
Go Huskys!!
Sandy Parker
Long time go I was here in school 1987
Phyllis Harris
Congrats HTHS!!!
Kim Parrish
We all know it’s better than 13th…IJS ☺️
Carl Musulman
if anyone remembersthe planning meetings for wen we broke away from jeff county…the goal based on income of trussville and other factors was between 6th to 8th in the state….so we are kind of under achieving. good news is the system as a whole is usually in the top ten!!
Barry Wilson
…but there’s only 13 high schools in Alabama!
Niki Dill
Hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but my freshman year we were #5….and there are only 13 high schools in Alabama…
Niki Dill
Further, every year after we were AT LEAST in the top 10…not to mention the legendary Dr. Mark Kirkemier was the Principal at the time…Come on Huskies, you can do better than that!!!