Rankings Arundel High School frequently ranks among the top high schools in AACPS and the state of Maryland: • Currently, in 2023, Arundel High School is ranked as the 18th best high school in the state of Maryland and the 2nd best comprehensive high school in AACPS by schooldigger.com • As of 2023, Arundel High School is rated a 9/10 overall and has a college readiness rating of 9/10 on
GreatSchools, the leading school rating website in the United States. • In 2013,
Newsweek ranked Arundel High School as the 2nd best high school in Anne Arundel County and one of the top 20 high schools in Maryland. Arundel was placed in the top 5% of public high schools in the United States. • In 2012 and 2013, Arundel High School was ranked as one of the
DC area's most challenging high schools by
the Washington Post. Arundel ranked in the top 5% of the most challenging high schools in the country. The criteria for the ratings measured college readiness by comparing
AP participation rates at different high schools. • In 2015, Arundel High School was among the top 15 high schools in Maryland and top 1,000 in the country (out of 26,000 public high schools) by
U.S. News & World Report and in 2015 was ranked as the 2nd best among high schools in Anne Arundel County. • In the latest 2019 ratings, Arundel High School received a 4-star rating by the Maryland State Department of Education, which began assigning schools a star rating out of 5 in 2018. Arundel High School, Arundel Middle School, and the four elementary feeder schools (collectively referred to as the “Arundel cluster”) had the third best scores of any cluster in Anne Arundel County. Arundel Middle and Odenton Elementary also received 4-star ratings, while Piney Orchard, Four Seasons, and Waugh Chapel Elementary Schools received 5/5 star ratings. The
Severna Park cluster ranked as the best in the county and the
Broadneck cluster ranked as the 2nd best in the county. • As of 2025, Arundel High School was ranked in the top 10% of public high schools in the United States by
U.S. News & World Report. • As of 2021, Arundel High School has the second highest equity rating of all non-charter public high schools in Anne Arundel County on
GreatSchools, with the first highest being Severna Park High. The equity section measures the academic performance of underserved students relative to the state average in a given school, as well as how well schools are closing the academic achievement gap. ==Athletics==