Newsweek Ranks Shady Side Academy Best STEM High

Newsweek Ranks Shady Side Academy Best STEM High School in Pittsburgh N ewsweek recently announced its ranking of the top STEM high schools in America for 2020, honoring excellence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. The national news magazine ranked Shady Side Academy as the best STEM high school in the Pittsburgh area, No. 6 in Pennsylvania and No. 250 in the nation. The full list of 5,000 ranked schools is available online at Newsweek. com.

Newsweek partnered with STEM.org to rank America’s Best STEM High Schools. The list includes schools in every region of the country that offer skilled teachers who keep up with developments in these fields and create dynamic learning environments to engage students. The top 5,000 schools were curated from STEM.org Educational Research using a proprietary scoring logic that took into consideration a broad set of quantitative and qualitative data from 2015-2019. The purpose was to determine which schools best offer their students experiences in science, technology, engineering and mathematics while preparing them for post‐secondary outcomes. Additional factors, including affluence and median household income, were taken into consideration in compiling the rankings.

Niche.com also rates Shady Side Academy among the best STEM high schools locally and nationally in its 2020 rankings. Niche ranked SSA the No. 1 Best High School for STEM in the Pittsburgh area, No. 2 in Pennsylvania, and No. 160 in America. It also ranked SSA the No. 1 Best Private High School and the No. 1 Best Private K-12 School in the Pittsburgh area. Based in Pittsburgh, Niche is the leading platform for finding information to choose the perfect school, college or neighborhood, providing facts, ratings and user reviews. Shady Side Academy Senior School in Fox Chapel recently opened two new STEM facilities: the