The 2010 U.S.News & World Report Americas Best High Schools methodology is based on the key principles that a great high school must serve all its students well, not just those who are collegebound, and that it must be able to produce measurable academic outcomes to show the school is successfully educating its student body across a range of performance indicators.

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List of Texas schools awarded:  http://www.usnews.com/listings/high-schools/texas