The 10 Best Public High Schools Ranked In North Dakota For 2023

I still get those butterflies in my stomach when I think about school. I’m not sure what it is, but you just never forget those feelings when you were young.

Well, I haven’t been to school for a lot longer than I’d like to admit myself. Maybe I was a weird kid, but my anxiety still seems to take it up a notch when I started thinking about that first day of school. I can still hear the first bell of the school year ringing in my head.

Our friends at Niche ranked the best North Dakota public high schools in the state for 2023. Their results are based on student and parent ratings, academic and student life data from the US Department of Education, and test scores and college data. Only one of our schools in the Bismarck Mandan area made the top 10.

However, five schools from the region made the top 25, including:

#11 Hazen High School – Moved up from #13 in 2022.

#15 Strasbourg – Stable from 2022.

#17 Linton High School – Moved up from #20 in 2022.

#18 Bismarck High School – down from #17 in 2022.

#23 Glen Ullin High School – New entry for 2023.

Now let’s take a look at the 10 BEST Public High Schools in North Dakota for 2023.

No. 10 Barnes County North High School

New entry. This school is located in the town of Wimbledon north of Valley City.

No. 9 Grand Forks Central High School

New entry. This is the oldest high school in Grand Forks.

No. 8 Fargo South High School

New entry. This school was formerly located south of Fargo but as the city grew south it is now more central.

#7 Related public high school

Located 20 miles southeast of Fargo. Kindred was also ranked #7 in 2022.

#6 Park River High School

Park River was also ranked #6 in 2022. Located approximately 15 miles west of Grafton.

#5 West Fargo Sheyenne High School

West Fargo Sheyenne was also ranked #5 in 2022. This is West Fargo’s newest high school.

#4 Red River High School

Remain stable from the 2022 ranking. This is the high school I graduated from. Red River is known for its ice hockey teams, but they’ve also won many tennis and golf titles over the years.

No. 3 Bismarck Century High School

Relegated from #2 in 2022. The Patriots are the only Bismarck school to make the top 10.

No. 2 Fargo North High School

Rising from #3 in 2022. This is Fargo’s oldest high school.

#1 Fargo Davies

Last year’s #1 public high school in North Dakota is also this year’s #1 school. This is one of North Dakota’s newer high schools.

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