Let's celebrate top public schools ...

Peter Lucas commented about the feature article, A watershed event for innovation in public education, that several public schools in South Carolina made a list produced by Newsweek of the best high schools in the country, The Complete List: 1,200 Top U.S. Schools. Peter asked:

So where is the acknowledgement? Where are the cheers?

Those are fair questions. So let's celebrate the best public high schools in the state.

The South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics in Hartsville was singled out as among the public school elites in the United States.

Here's other South Carolina high schools that made the list, putting them among the top 5 percent of public schools nationally measured according to Newsweek's criteria.

10 - Academic Magnet - North Charleston
36 - Southside - Greenville
138 - Mauldin - Greenville
434 - Dutch Fork - Irmo
456 - Governor's School for Arts & Humanities - Greenville
595 - Wade Hampton - Greenville
674 - Woodruff - Woodruff
684 - Mann - Greenville
704 - Hillcrest - Simpsonville
744 - Daniel - Central
749 - Riverside - Greer
896 - Spartanburg - Spartanburg
912 - Richland Northeast - Columbia
939 - Hilton Head - Hilton Head
1004 - Woodmont - Piedmont
1043 - Spring Valley - Columbia
1116 - South Aiken - Aiken
1120 - Beaufort - Beaufort
1138 - Irmo - Columbia
1147 - Eastside - Greenville
1155 - Aiken - Aiken
1195 - Dorman - Roebuck
1206 - Socastee - Myrtle Beach