MDIHS Ranked 12th Best By US News and World Report

MDI High School was ranked the 12th best high school in the State of Maine in the recent ratings by US News and World Report. The Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone was the top ranked school.

US News and World Report classified 2 Gold Medal Schools, (MSSM and Falmouth) 11 Silver Medal Schools, which included MDI and 20 Bronze Medal Schools.

Rankings were done using the following criteria

• STEP 1 | Students perform better than expected in their state.

  US News and World Report looked at reading and math results for students on each state's proficiency tests and then factored in the percentage of economically disadvantaged students, who tend to score lower.

• STEP 2 | Disadvantaged students perform better than state average.

  US News and World Report compared each school's math and reading proficiency rates for disadvantaged students - black, Hispanic and low-income - with the statewide results for these student groups and then selected schools that were performing better than their state averages.

• STEP 3 | Student graduation rates meet or exceed a national standard

  US News and World Report excluded schools from consideration if their graduation rates were lower than 75 percent - a threshold that is higher than a federal law that requires states to give extra resources to schools below 67 percent.

• STEP 4 | Students are prepared for college-level coursework.

  US News and World Report calculated a College Readiness Index, which is based on the school's AP participation rate and how well the students did on those tests. Tiebeakers were used to determine ranks of schools that achieved the same College Readiness Index.