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