Paul White, L.J. Peak and Whitney Young have hit the top 5 across several polls. Photo Source: MaxPreps
By Marcus Shockley
This national high school basketball ranking combines multiple available polls for a period of time into a single poll, and creates a ranking for each team based on their average ranking, number of times they are ranked in the various polls, the highest ranking that teams has in those polls and the average ranking. Read more about today’s cumulative ranking below.
| School | Location | High | AVG | Qty | TrueRank™ | |
| 1. | Montverde Academy | Montverde,FL | 1 | 1 | 4 | 34.250 |
| 2. | Findlay Prep | Henderson,NV | 1 | 1 | 4 | 33.750 |
| 3. | Lone Peak HS | West Highland,UT | 3 | 4 | 4 | 30.000 |
| 4. | Whitney Young Magnet HS | Chicago,IL | 3 | 5 | 4 | 28.750 |
| 5. | Mater Dei HS | Santa Ana,CA | 3 | 6 | 4 | 27.500 |
| 6. | Poly HS | Long Beach,CA | 5 | 6 | 4 | 26.500 |
| 7. | La Lumiere School | La Porte,IN | 4 | 8 | 4 | 24.750 |
| 8. | Huntington Prep | Huntington,WV | 4 | 8 | 4 | 24.250 |
| 9. | St. Benedict Prep | Newark,NJ | 5 | 9 | 4 | 23.500 |
| 10. | Prime Prep Academy | Dallas,TX | 4 | 10 | 4 | 22.500 |
| 11. | St. Anthony HS | Jersey City,NJ | 7 | 10 | 4 | 21.250 |
| 12. | Oak Hill Academy | Mouth of Wilson,VA | 10 | 10 | 4 | 20.250 |
| 13. | Desoto HS | Dallas,TX | 8 | 11 | 4 | 20.000 |
| 14. | Simeon HS | Chicago,IL | 11 | 13 | 4 | 16.500 |
| 15. | Omaha Central HS | Omaha,NE | 11 | 14 | 3 | 13.333 |
| 16. | Bishop Montgomery | Torrance,CA | 15 | 15 | 4 | 12.750 |
| 17. | Iowa City West HS | Iowa City,IA | 15 | 17 | 4 | 10.750 |
| 18. | Lake Oswego HS | Lake Oswego,OR | 14 | 18 | 4 | 9.750 |
| 19. | Southwind HS | Memphis,TN | 16 | 17 | 3 | 7.667 |
| 20. | Bishop O’Connell | Arlington,VA | 18 | 20 | 3 | 3.333 |
| 21. | Pershing HS | Detroit,MI | 18 | 22 | 3 | 0.333 |
| 22. | Blanche Ely HS | Pompano Beach,FL | 22 | 22 | 3 | -1.333 |
| 23. | St. John Bosco | Los Angeles,CA | 21 | 23 | 3 | -1.667 |
| 24. | Germantown HS | Germantown,WI | 23 | 23 | 3 | -3.000 |
| 25. | Midwest City HS | Midwest City,OK | 17 | 23 | 2 | -7.000 |
| 26. | Bishop Gorman HS | Las Vegas,NV | 20 | 23 | 2 | -9.000 |
| 27. | Olympic HS | Charlotte,NC | 23 | 23 | 2 | -10.500 |
| 28. | Gonzaga HS | Washington,DC | 20 | 20 | 1 | -24.000 |
| 29. | Christ the King | Middle Village,NY | 20 | 20 | 1 | -24.000 |
| 30. | Thurgood Marshall HS | Dayton,OH | 22 | 22 | 1 | -30.000 |
Notes: This week’s poll includes four sources: Hoopniks, ESPN, USA Today and PrepNation. MaxPreps also released polls during this period but I haven’t included them, due to the fact that they segment private academies from public high schools. I am not sure how, or if, I will incorporate their rankings back into the cumulative rankings.
The top two in the poll remain the same, although all polls have Montverde Academy at #1, with the exception of USA Today, which has Findlay Prep at the top spot. However, movement in the rest of the rankings, as polls vary widely on schools such as Prime Prep, Huntington Prep and St. Anthony. Once again I’m listing the top 30.
Finally: In the poll listing, the ‘high’ value represents the highest ranking in any poll that team received during the ranking period.
‘Qty’ represents how many polls they were ranked in. ‘AVG’ represents their average ranking in all polls where they were ranked.
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