Eastern Technical High School and has been named among the nation’s 500 best high schools for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) by Newsweek magazine and STEM.org.
Eastern Tech was ranked 240. Towson High School was ranked in the top 500 best high schools at 310.
Six other BCPS high schools appeared on Newsweek’s longer Top 5000 STEM High Schools list. Those schools are: Dulaney (1309), Hereford (1717), Western Tech (2559), George Washington Carver Center (2649), Catonsville (3112) and Pikesville (4243).
The rankings were based on qualitative and quantitative data collected from 2015 – 2019 along with additional considerations such as median household income.