Ah, another chance to see how your high school measured up against the more than 18,000 public high schools in the United States.

U.S. News & World Report has entered the world of high school rankings with its first ever list of “America’s Best High Schools.” Look out Newsweek, there’s a new dog in town!

OK, OK. I’ll shut up and cut to the chase.

The top local high schools according to U.S. News are…

#28: Edgemont Jr./Sr. High School, Scarsdale Greenburgh

#29: Greeley High School, Chappaqua

#52: Rye High School, Rye

#55: Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale

#75: Blind Brook High School, Rye Brook

#91: Irvington High School, Irvington

Click here to watch a video interview I shot recently with U.S. News editor Brian Kelly, in which he defends the magazine’s controversial college rankings.

U.S. News analyzed 18,790 public high schools in 40 states using data from the 2005-06 school year using a methodology developed by School Evaluation Services, a K-12 education data research business run by Standard & Poor’s.

It was a three-step process:

The first step determined whether each school’s students were performing better than statistically expected for the average student in their state, using reading and math test results for all students on each state’s high school test. The rankings then factored in the percentage of economically disadvantaged students (who tend to score lower) enrolled at the school to find which schools were performing better than their statistical expectations.

The next step determined whether the school’s least-advantaged students (black, Hispanic, and low-income) were performing better than average for similar students in the state, using math and reading proficiency rates.

Lastly, schools that made it through the first two steps were judged according to college-readiness performance, using Advanced Placement data as the benchmark for success. This third step measured which schools produced the best college-level achievement for the highest percentages of their students.