5/6/2019 – Parkway’s four high schools - Central, North, South and West high schools - were named among the country’s "2019 Best High Schools" by U.S. News & World Report. All four ranked in the top 15 percent of high schools across the country and placed among the top high schools in Missouri.

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The highest ranked U.S. public schools in U.S. News & World Report's 2019 "Best High Schools" rankings are those whose attendees demonstrated outstanding outcomes above expectations in math and reading state assessments, passed a diverse array of college-level exams and graduated in high proportions.

In coordination with North Carolina-based RTI International, a global nonprofit social science research firm, U.S. News ranked 17,245 public high schools out of more than 23,000 reviewed. This is the count of public high schools that had a 12th-grade enrollment of 15 or greater, or otherwise had sufficient enrollment in other high school grades during the 2016-2017 school year to be analyzed. It is six to seven times larger than the more than 2,700 ranked schools in the 2018 edition.