Top High Schools With the Most Minority, Disadvantaged Students - Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings (usnews.com)

Top High Schools With the Most Minority, Disadvantaged Students - Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings (usnews.com): There were many gold medal public high schools – which ranked in the top 500 in the U.S. News 2013 Best High Schools rankings – that had large proportions of economically disadvantaged students or very high percentages of minority students enrolled.

U.S. News has created two separate lists to profile the top-performing schools with these characteristics.

The first list below is of the 25 gold medal schools that had the highest percentage of economically disadvantaged students enrolled. This classification, a measure of poverty, is determined by the percent of students enrolled at a high school who are eligible for free- or reduced-price lunch.

The Preuss School in California was first with 99.6 percent of its students in poverty. California had 14 high schools on the list with the highest percentages of economically disadvantaged students, by far the most of any state.

New York had the second-highest number with four, and Texas was third with three high schools.