The following is a list of the top ten high schools in the six county Denver metro area, as determined by average ACT scores for the schools. For a full description of the ranking methodology please scroll to the end of this list. Boulder County is excluded from this list. If you would like to see the state list which includes Boulder County, please click here. This data is based on the 2006-2007 school year CSAP tests. A perfect ACT score is 36. The state school average ACT score is 18.95.
ACT Score: 26.50 - Proficiency Score: 92.67
D Evelyn Junior / Senior High School
10359 W Nassau Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80235
http://sc.jeffco.k12.co.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=188
303-982-2600
State Detailed Report
ACT Score: 23.70 - Proficiency Score: 76.00
Cherry Creek High School
9300 East Union Avenue
Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111
http://www.cchs.ccsd.k12.co.us/
720-554-2285
State Detailed Report
ACT Score: 23.49 - Proficiency Score: 70.00
Denver School of Science and Technology
2000 Valentia Street
Denver, Colorado 80238
http://www.scienceandtech.org/
303-320-5570
State Detailed Report
ACT Score: 22.41 - Proficiency Score: 70.33
Mountain Vista High School
10585 Mountain Vista Ridge
Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80126
http://www1.dcsdk12.org/secondary/mvhs/
303-387-1500
State Detailed Report
ACT Score: 22.20 - Proficiency Score: 72.00
Arapahoe High School
2201 East Dry Creek Road
Littleton, Colorado 80122
http://arapahoe.littletonpublicschools.net/
303-347-6000
State Detailed Report
ACT Score: 22.16 - Proficiency Score: 73.00
Denver School of the Arts
7111 Montview Blvd
Denver, Colorado 80220
http://dsa.dpsk12.org/
720-424-1700
State Detailed Report
ACT Score: 21.83 - Proficiency Score: 65.00
Heritage High School
1401 West Geddes Avenue
Littleton, Colorado 80120
http://heritage.littletonpublicschools.net/
303-347-7600
State Detailed Report
ACT Score: 21.67 - Proficiency Score: 74.00
Evergreen High School
29300 Buffalo Road
Evergreen, Colorado 80439
http://sc.jeffco.k12.co.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=290
303-982-5140
State Detailed Report
ACT Score: 21.63 - Proficiency Score: 62.00
Lakewood High School
9700 West 8th Avenue
Lakewood, Colorado 80215
http://lakewood-web.jeffco.k12.co.us/
303-982-7096
State Detailed Report
ACT Score: 21.58 - Proficiency Score: 71.33
Ralston Valley Senior High School
13355 West 80th Avenue
Arvada, Colorado 80005
http://jeffco.k12.co.us/high/ralston/
303-982-5600
State Detailed Report
Here is a map showing the locations of the top ten schools in the Denver Metro area.
Here is a map showing the location of most high schools in the Denver Metro area. High schools without test scores were excluded.
Ranking Methodology: Here is how the rank of the schools were determined. Initially, all of the schools were entered into a database. The State of Colorado provides various statistics about every school in the state at this website. I copied list form data from the state website, which included data such as school name, address, and grades served. I then accessed individual detailed school reports to obtain and enter school average ACT scores for 11th reading, writing, and math. I also obtained and entered a value known as “percent of students scoring proficient and advanced” for the school in 9th and 10th grade reading, writing, and math. I then created a combined average ACT score based on the school average ACT scores in reading, writing, and math. I also created a combined proficiency score based on the school average proficiency scores in reading, writing, and math. I then sorted the database by the combined average ACT score in order to produce the list of top ten schools. In several instances, the two combined average scores that I created overlap each other, indicating that sometimes the schools are roughly the same based on these two different scores. Some school accountability reports did not include school average ACT scores. If a school accountability report did not include a school average ACT score, that school was omitted from the top ten reports, and was omitted from the maps showing high schools in the Denver Metro area and the state of Colorado.
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