12/05/2008 3:46 PM ET

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - U.S. News and World Report says an Alexandria high school is the nation's best high school. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology ranked as the number one American high school after U.S. News and School Evaluation Services evaluated more than 21,000 schools.

Woodson High, McLean High and Langley High, all in Fairfax County, Va., join Winston Churchill High, Thomas S. Wootton High and Walt Whitman High in Montgomery County, Md. in the list of top 100 schools.

The Charter School of Wilmington in Wilmington, Del. also ranked in the nation's top 100. Schools were ranked on how students performed on standardized tests, how schools educate disadvantaged students and on students' readiness for college.