Highland Park High School, an institution known in the community for its tradition of winning both in the classroom and in the realm of athletics, has made its way to the top again.

Last week, it was announced that HPHS had earned a spot on The Daily Beast's "America's Best High Schools" list. 

The Park Cities' only public high school ranked No. 86 out of 2,000 public schools nationwide according The Daily Beast's calculations (TDB is a publication owned by Newsweek), meaning HPHS is the 86th-best at churning out "college-ready" individuals. 

The Daily Beast pitted all the best public high schools in the country against each other using six benchmarks: graduation rate, college acceptance rate, AP/IB/AICE tests taken per students, average SAT/ACT scores, average AP/IB/AICE scores, and percent of students enrolled in at least one AP/IB/AICE course.

This isn't Highland Park's first time in the academic spotlight—in 2012, the campus came in at No. 47, but last year's list only consisted of 1,000 schools.

The only Texas schools to top HPHS? The School of Science/Engineering Magnet and The School for the Talented and Gifted Magnet High School, both based in Dallas. Also beating out HPHS are Houston's Carnegie Vanguard, No. 28, the Liberal Arts and Science Academy High School in Austin, Irving's Uplift North Hills Preparatory School coming in at No. 41, Uplift Summit International Preparatory, Westlake Academy, Austin's Westwood High, No. 63 Plano West Senior High, and Houston's Debakey High.

HPHS was one of 13 Texas schools to make the list and as part of HPISD, is one of 23 districts in the Texas High Performance Schools Consortium, which was created by the state Legislature to help guide education recommendations and policymaking and academic accountability statewide.