Grand Forks' Red River and Central high schools are ranked fourth and fifth among the best high schools in North Dakota in this year's U.S. News and World Report's rankings of the nation's high schools.
They were among five North Dakota high schools that received silver medals in the 2017 Best High Schools rankings, which were based on factors such as reading and math proficiency, disadvantaged students' performance, college preparedness and graduation rates.
Among Minnesota schools, Bemidji Senior High School also received a silver medal.
To be part of the rankings list, schools had to earn gold, silver or bronze medals.
In North Dakota, the 35 high schools that received bronze awards include: Cavalier; Central Valley, Buxton; Dakota Prairie, Petersburg; Devils Lake; Grafton; Larimore; Maddock; Midway, Inkster; Minto; North Star, Cando; Northwood; and Park River.
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These northwestern Minnesota high schools received bronze medals: Badger; Bagley; Blackduck; Fisher; Fosston; Greenbush Middle River; Kelliher; Kittson Central; Hallock; and Win-E-Mac, Erskine.
Minnesota had seven gold medal schools, 48 silver and 103 bronze.
In North Dakota, the top-ranked high schools are Century High School of Bismarck, followed by Davies and North high schools in Fargo. Each received a silver medal.
To create its rankings, U.S. News and World Report evaluated more than 28,000 public high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Five hundred received gold medals, 2,109 received silver medals and 3,432 received bronze medals.
Thompson winners
Three members of the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America chapter at Thompson (N.D.) High School earned awards at the annual FCCLA National Leadership Conference in July at Nashville, Ky.
Lana Krack, a senior, and Linnea Grotte and Marileah Stang, juniors, received gold awards in the "food innovations" competition category.
They were among 4,200 students to compete in more than 30 STAR (Students Taking Action with Recognition) events at the conference.
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Krack placed second overall among 76 teams in the "food innovations, senior" category. She was awarded a full tuition scholarship to Sullivan University in Kentucky.
The FCCLA is a career and technical student organization that helps young men and women become leaders and address important personal, family, work and societal issues through family and consumer sciences education.
It has about 164,000 members and more than 5,300 chapters throughout the country and in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Graduate scholarships
Grand Forks teachers Annette Kohlmeier and Anna Moser have received UND Phi Delta Kappa Graduate Scholarships from the Grand Forks Foundation for Education to support their efforts to earn graduate degrees at UND.
Kohlmeier is a mathematics teacher at Central High School. Moser teaches science at South Middle School. Each received $500.
The scholarship is intended to promote leadership potential, enhance leadership skills and help deserving graduate-level students complete master's or specialist degrees in education.
