Great Oak Ranks Among Nation's Best Schools

took a place among the nation's best schools, according to a study published in the U.S. News and World Report.

It earned the rank of 1,049 on the list for its 24-to-1 teacher-student ratio, its students college readiness score and its overall academic performance index rating, according to the study. It also took 204th place on the list of California's best schools.

No other schools in the made the list.

U.S. News partnered with American Institutes for Research to analyze 21,776 public high schools.

The organizations decided the schools' college readiness by looking at the students' Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate test data. The overall academic performance rating was assessed by looking at the schools' reading and math proficiency tests, which were then corrected to consider the number of disadvantaged students, which typically score lower.

Click here to read about the study's methodology.

Great Oak landed in 700th place last year in an unrelated .