Pine View School is among the top public schools nationally, along with Riverview and Suncoast Polytech.
Three local Sarasota County schools earned high rankings among tens of thousands of schools nationwide by U.S. News and World Report.
According to a recent report, Pine View High School has been named the second-best high school in Florida and the 13th-best in the entire United States.
The school serves gifted learners in second through 12th grades and regularly rakes up awards and recognition. The public Sarasota County school won high marks on the report for college readiness and assessments for Florida schools. The small, Osprey-based school boasts a 100% graduation rate and has a total enrollment of 737 students.
A second Sarasota County District school, Suncoast Polytech in Sarasota, was ranked 36th in Florida. The public magnet school offers a rigorous college readiness curriculum at its Beneva Road campus and has served high school students since 2012. The report noted the school’s large underserved student population, with around 35% of the 541 students identifying as “economically disadvantaged.”
Suncoast Polytech landed at No. 491 overall among more than 17,000 ranked high schools nationally.
Nearly 11% of high schools were charter schools, and about 4% were magnets.
Sarasota’s Riverview High School cracked the top 100 best schools in Florida, landing at No. 88 in the Sunshine State and the high 1,300s in the country. The school’s curriculum is based on the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. Riverview’s total student population this year is approximately 2,534.
This article originally appeared in Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Pine View, Suncoast, and Riverview rank high by U.S. News & World Report.