Altoona Area High School has been listed as one of “America’s Best High Schools” by U.S. News and World Report.

Altoona is one of only 69 high schools in Pennsylvania to be recognized. Some 18,743 schools across the United States were analyzed according to a number of factors including student achievement.

Altoona High was ranked as a bronze medal school along with 1,188 other schools in the nation (6.3 percent).

Bellwood-Antis and Tyrone Area high schools are the only other two Blair County high schools to also be listed. They too received bronze medal ratings.