Minnesota has nine public high schools listed in the new Newsweek magazine listing of the top 500 in the country.

Edina High School is the state's highest, at 78th. Mahtomedi is 158th.

The other Minnesota schools:

• Lakeville North, 178th
• Rochester Century, 210th
• Eden Prairie, 213th
• St. Louis Park, 248th
• Andover, 364th
• Apple Valley, 451st
• Simley, Inver Grove Heights, 478th

The magazine says it's revamped its methodology this year:

We enlisted a panel of experts — Wendy Kopp of Teach For America, Tom Vander Ark of Open Education Solutions (formerly executive director for education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), and Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford professor of education and founder of the School Redesign Network — to develop a yardstick that fully reflects a school’s success turning out college-ready (and life-ready) students. To this end, each school’s score is comprised of six components: graduation rate (25%), college matriculation rate (25%), AP tests taken per graduate (25%), average SAT/ACT scores (10%), average AP/IB/AICE scores (10%), and AP courses offered (5%).