In May, 2018, US News and World Report released its rankings of America's best high schools. Detroit Lakes High School was given a silver ranking on a gold, silver, bronze rating scale. Within silver designation, US News and World Report ranked DLHS in the top 8% of all high schools in the nation. Further, it ranked DLHS 49th out of over 500 high schools in Minnesota. Again, that places DLHS in the upper 8% of the high schools in the state.

The rankings of the high schools as conducted by US News is based upon the individual high school's performance on their required state assessments. In Minnesota, that would be Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA's). Other criteria for ranking is the individual school's graduation rate, and participation in Advanced Placement program.

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