{"id":8556,"date":"2018-05-25T17:12:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T17:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8556"},"modified":"2018-05-25T17:12:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T17:12:34","slug":"stisd-high-schools-rank-among-the-best-in-the-state-and-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8556","title":{"rendered":"STISD High Schools Rank Among the Best in the State and Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/USNewsWorldReportGraphic-2018-Website.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8557\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/USNewsWorldReportGraphic-2018-Website.jpg\" alt=\"USNewsWorldReportGraphic-2018-Website\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/USNewsWorldReportGraphic-2018-Website.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/USNewsWorldReportGraphic-2018-Website-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MERCEDES \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0All four South Texas Independent School District (STISD) high schools ranked among the best in the state and nation in\u00a0<em>U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s<\/em>\u00a02018 Best High Schools list, released this week.<\/p>\n<p>All four campuses made the top 50 list for Texas. The Science Academy of South Texas (Sci Tech) in Mercedes was named the 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0best high school in the state, while South Texas High School for Health Professions (Med High) in Mercedes ranked 35<sup>th<\/sup>, South Texas Academy for Medical Professions (Medical Academy) in Olmito ranked 42<sup>nd<\/sup>, and South Texas Business, Education &amp; Technology Academy (BETA) in Edinburg ranked 44<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Nationally, Sci Tech ranked 130<sup>th<\/sup>, Med High ranked 176<sup>th<\/sup>, Medical Academy ranked 220<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and BETA ranked 227<sup>th<\/sup>. All campuses received gold medals, which are awarded to the top 500 schools based on highest college readiness.<\/p>\n<p>Over 28,800 U.S. public high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia were analyzed for the 2018 Best High Schools rankings. According to the magazine, the\u00a0<em>U.S. News<\/em>\u00a0team teamed up with North Carolina-based RTI International, a global nonprofit social science research firm, to compile the list, implementing a \u201ccomprehensive 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.\u201d The full methodology is available at the following link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-high-schools\/articles\/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings\">https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-high-schools\/articles\/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>STISD is comprised of four magnet high schools \u2013 South Texas Business, Education &amp; Technology Academy (BETA), South Texas High School for Health Professions (Med High), South Texas Academy for Medical Professions (Medical Academy), and The Science Academy of South Texas (Sci Tech) \u2013 as well as two middle schools \u2013 Rising Scholars Academy of South Texas (Rising Scholars) and South Texas Preparatory Academy (STPA). All campuses are tuition-free and serve students from Cameron, Hidalgo and Willacy Counties. For more information, call 1-800-21STUDY or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stisd.net\/\">www.stisd.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/STISDgrads.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8558\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/STISDgrads.jpg\" alt=\"STISDgrads\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/STISDgrads.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/STISDgrads-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/STISDgrads-405x203.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MERCEDES \u2013\u00a0All four South Texas Independent School District (STISD) high schools ranked among the best in the state and nation in\u00a0U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s\u00a02018 Best High Schools list, released this week. All four campuses made the top 50 list for Texas. The Science Academy of South Texas (Sci Tech) in Mercedes was named the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8559,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions\/8559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}