Best high schools spring update 

By Eddy Ramirez, U.S. News & World Report, May 16, 2008 

"We set our standards very high, and the faculty certainly spends a great deal of time meeting those standards," says Liz Norman, principal of the Loveless Academic Magnet Program High School in Montgomery, Ala. Loveless is one of four high schools that earned gold medal status in a recent update of the U.S. News America's Best High Schools rankings. When the rankings were first published in fall 2007, public high schools in Alabama were not analyzed because their 2005-06 school year test data were unavailable for analysis by U.S. News and our partner in the project, School Evaluation Services, a K-12 education and data research and analysis business of Standard & Poor's. The Alabama data now have been released and, as a result, 31 schools from the Yellowhammer State have been added to the searchable database of high schools.