Which local high schools performed the best on the 2019 Keystone exams

Which local public and charter schools performed the best on the most recent Keystone exams, given to high schoolers to assess their readiness? Here are the answers.

>>PHOTOS: Best performing public and charter schools on Keystone exams

The Pennsylvania Department of Education recently released the results of standardized tests given earlier this year, including the Keystone exams, which are taken by high school students, and the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment exams, taken by students in grades three through eight.

The Business Times annually crunches the data from the state to create its PBT Honor Roll of top-scoring school districts, which looks at three years of test scores for districts and individual schools. This data is published by the Business Times each spring. In order to offer readers a way to get more understanding from the data released by the state, the Business Times used the same methodology to analyze the most recent scores, but only for the single year.

Below are the top 5 performing schools in our area: