USA Today Gives Bridgeport High Ranking Among Top Schools in State for Sports
By Michael Minnich on May 14, 2026
Citing data from a study conducted by Niche, USA Today has ranked Bridgeport High School as the No. 2 school and No. 1 public high school for athletes in West Virginia.
The story says the data “accounts for survey feedback from students and parents—accounting for ‘reviews of athletics, number of state championships, student participation in athletics, and the number of sports offered at the school’—and data from the U.S. Department of Education.”
The formula is 50% voluntary parent/student surveys, self-reported by Niche users, 20% enrollment, 10% K12 sports championships, 10% number of sports (which the survey reports at 13, which is not correct as Bridgeport participates in all 19 WVSSAC-sanctioned sports this year), 5% boys athletic participation and 5% girls athletic participation.
The full list:
1) Wheeling Central
2) Bridgeport
3) Winfield
4) Fairmont Senior
5) University
6) Williamstown
7) Martinsburg
8) Doddridge County
9) Ravenswood
10) Charleston Catholic
11) Spring Valley
12) Point Pleasant
13) Frankfort
14) Poca
15) Morgantown
16) Wheeling Park
17) Herbert Hoover
18) George Washington
19) Huntington
20) Cabell Midland
21) Cameron
22) Hurricane
23) Buffalo
24) Wahama
25) Tyler Consolidated
