Northcoast Prep: #30 in America: Wow! Newsweek ranks Arcata's Northcoast Preparatory and Performing Arts Academy as the third-best public high school in California and 30th-best in the nation! Congrats, Northcoast Prep!

Congrats, also, to Arcata High, which comes in at #1,154 and is thus in the top six percent of high schools in the country, according to the magazine's formula for figuring such