As repeatedly demonstrated in U.S. News & World Report rankings, the academic foundation of our primary school curriculum sets the stage for our high schools’ success.
U.S. News & World Report rankings include data on nearly 24,000 public high schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia. Schools are ranked on six factors based on their performance on state assessments and college preparation.
For STEM High School rankings U.S. News & World Report looked at the top 1,000 public schools from the latest Best High Schools rankings and evaluated their students’ participation and success in Advanced Placement® science and math tests.
| School | National Rankings | Arizona State Rankings | National Charter Schools | National STEM Schools |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BASIS Ahwatukee | #56 | #9 | #10 | #164 |
| BASIS Chandler | #11 | #1 | #2 | #4 |
| BASIS Oro Valley | #27 | #2 | #4 | #12 |
| BASIS Flagstaff | #42 | #7 | #7 | #77 |
| BASIS Mesa | #66 | #11 | #13 | #187 |
| BASIS Peoria | #30 | #5 | #6 | #5 |
| BASIS Phoenix | #58 | #10 | #12 | #16 |
| BASIS Prescott | #81 | #12 | #19 | #14 |
| BASIS Scottsdale | #29 | #4 | #5 | #3 |
| BASIS Tucson North | #54 | #8 | #9 | #15 |
| BASIS Washington, D.C. | #274 | #3 (D.C.) | #68 | - |
Check out the latest issue of Outcomes, our annual magazine celebrating excellence by teachers and students in the network of BASIS Charter Schools.
BASIS Charter School students achieve Advanced Placement® success, and we set high expectations for our students and use The College Board’s AP® Exams as a measure.
Unlike most American schools, which only allow their top performing students to take AP® courses, BASIS requires them of all students starting in grade 9. Graduates of BASIS Charter Schools have completed at least six AP courses, and it is not unusual for students to have taken eleven or twelve AP Exams over the course of their educational journey.
The College Board® recognizes students’ exemplary performance by naming them as:
Granted to students who receive scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams.
Granted to students who receive an average score of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams.
Granted to students who receive an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams.
Awarded to students who display exceptional achievement across a variety of disciplines. See eligibility requirements.
AP EXAM PASS RATE
AVERAGE NUMBER OF AP EXAMS PER GRADUATE
AVERAGE AP EXAM SCORE
Being an AP Scholar sets students apart from their peers on college applications, and those having received a score of 3 or higher typically experience greater academic success.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Test for Schools is based on The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and administered to fifteen-year-old students every three years in more than seventy countries. Rather than testing memorized facts, the OECD Test for Schools (based on PISA) assesses problem solving and critical thinking, both of which the BASIS Charter School Curriculum is based upon. BASIS Charter School students consistently outscore others across the globe, including those attending the highest-ranked schools in the world.
| Math | Reading | Science | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASIS Charter Schools* | 596 | 624 | 622 |
| B-S-J-Z (China) | 591 | 555 | 590 |
| Singapore | 569 | 549 | 551 |
| Macao (China) | 558 | 525 | 544 |
| Hong Kong (China) | 551 | 524 | 517 |
| Estonia | 523 | 523 | 530 |
| Japan | 527 | 504 | 529 |
| Korea | 526 | 514 | 519 |
| Canada | 512 | 520 | 518 |
| Chinese Taipei | 531 | 503 | 516 |
| Finland | 507 | 520 | 522 |
| Poland | 516 | 512 | 511 |
| Ireland | 500 | 518 | 496 |
| Slovenia | 509 | 495 | 507 |
| United Kingdom | 502 | 504 | 505 |
| New Zealand | 494 | 506 | 508 |
| Sweden | 502 | 506 | 499 |
| Netherlands | 519 | 485 | 503 |
| Denmark | 509 | 501 | 493 |
| Germany | 500 | 498 | 503 |
| Belgium | 508 | 493 | 499 |
| Australia | 491 | 503 | 503 |
| Switzerland | 515 | 484 | 495 |
| Norway | 501 | 499 | 490 |
| Czech Republic | 499 | 490 | 497 |
| United States | 478 | 505 | 502 |
| France | 495 | 493 | 493 |
| Portugal | 492 | 492 | 492 |
| Austria | 499 | 484 | 490 |
| OECD average | 489 | 487 | 489 |
| Latvia | 496 | 479 | 487 |
| OECD total | 478 | 485 | 486 |
| Spain | 481 | 483 | |
| Iceland | 495 | 474 | 475 |
| Russia | 488 | 479 | 478 |
| Lithuania | 481 | 476 | 482 |
| Hungary | 481 | 476 | 481 |
| Italy | 487 | 476 | 468 |
| Luxembourg | 483 | 470 | 477 |
| Belarus | 472 | 474 | 471 |
| Croatia | 464 | 479 | 472 |
| Slovak Republic | 486 | 458 | 464 |
| Israel | 463 | 470 | 462 |
| Ukraine | 453 | 466 | 469 |
| Turkey | 454 | 466 | 468 |
| Malta | 472 | 448 | 457 |
| Greece | 451 | 457 | 452 |
| Serbia | 448 | 439 | 440 |
| Cyprus | 451 | 424 | 439 |
| Chile | 417 | 452 | 444 |
| United Arab Emirates | 435 | 432 | 434 |
| Malaysia | 440 | 415 | 438 |
| Romania | 430 | 428 | 426 |
| Bulgaria | 436 | 420 | 424 |
| Moldova | 421 | 424 | 428 |
| Uruguay | 418 | 427 | 426 |
| Brunei Darussalam | 430 | 408 | 431 |
| Montenegro | 430 | 421 | 415 |
| Albania | 437 | 405 | 417 |
| Mexico | 409 | 420 | 419 |
| Jordan | 400 | 419 | 429 |
| Costa Rica | 402 | 426 | 416 |
| Qatar | 414 | 407 | 419 |
| Thailand | 419 | 393 | 426 |
| Colombia | 391 | 412 | 413 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 406 | 403 | 398 |
| Kazakhstan | 423 | 387 | 397 |
| Baku (Azerbaijan) | 420 | 389 | 398 |
| Peru | 400 | 401 | 404 |
| North Macedonia | 394 | 393 | 413 |
| Brazil | 384 | 413 | 404 |
| Argentina | 379 | 402 | 404 |
| Georgia | 398 | 380 | 383 |
| Saudi Arabia | 373 | 399 | 386 |
| Indonesia | 379 | 371 | 396 |
| Lebanon | 393 | 353 | 384 |
| Morocco | 368 | 359 | 377 |
| Panama | 353 | 377 | 365 |
| Kosovo | 366 | 353 | 365 |
| Philippines | 353 | 340 | 357 |
| Dominican Republic | 325 | 342 | 336 |
* Includes BASIS Ahwatukee, BASIS Chandler, BASIS Washington, D.C., BASIS Oro Valley, and BASIS Tucson North.
** Bejing-Shanghai-Jiangsu-Guangdong
Source: OECD “How Your School Compares Internationally: OECD Test for Schools,” 2020. BASIS Charter School results are from the 2019 OECD Test for Schools. Results for all other countries and educational systems are from the 2018 PISA exam. The 2020 OECD Test for Schools was designed to enable international benchmarking against results from the 2018 PISA exam.
