{"id":11172,"date":"2015-07-22T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T15:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=11172"},"modified":"2015-07-22T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:47:22","slug":"conestoga-unionville-named-among-top-us-high-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=11172","title":{"rendered":"Conestoga, Unionville named among top US high schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/TopHS-300x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1148509\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/TopHS-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"TopHS\" \/><\/a>Two Chester County high schools have been ranked\u00a0among the nation\u2019s top 13 public high schools out of some 21,000 schools in the United States: Conestoga and Unionville by <a href=\"http:\/\/BestColleges.com\"><span class=\"s2\">BestColleges.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The schools were ranked of the basis of best academics, safety, best teachers and best facilities.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Conestoga ranked number two overall \u2014 trailing only Horace Greeley of Chappaqua, NY \u2014 earning a 41st in the nation rating for its academics (number one in Pennsylvania), 59th best in facilities (11th in the state), 19th in teaching faculty (third in the state) and the 54th safest high school in America (fourth safest in Pennsylvania).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Unionville ranked 13th, scoring 123rd in academics (number eight in Pennsylvania), 13th nationally in facilities (no. 2 in Pennsylvania), 82nd in teaching faculty (12th best in the state) and was ranked the sixth safest high school in America (safest in Pennsylvania).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The complete methodology of the rankings can be found here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestcolleges.com\/features\/best-high-schools-in-america\/\">http:\/\/www.bestcolleges.com\/features\/best-high-schools-in-america\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Chester County high schools have been ranked\u00a0among the nation\u2019s top 13 public high schools out of some 21,000 schools in the United States: Conestoga and Unionville by BestColleges.com. The schools were ranked of the basis of best academics, safety, best teachers and best facilities. &nbsp;&nbsp; Send article as PDF &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[6175,6174,811],"class_list":["post-11172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-bestcolleges-com","tag-conestoga-high-school","tag-unionville-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11174,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172\/revisions\/11174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}