A good science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education has grown in importance over the years, as the STEM skills only possessed by specialists today will be expected of nearly everyone in the workforce in the future, writes Nancy Cooper for Newsweek.

As a result, the magazine has ranked the Top 500 STEM High Schools in the nation for 2020, and Conestoga High School is among them.

STEM skills are best adopted at an early age, as children are natural STEM students with their incisive curiosity and desire to explore. It is important to nurture this early drive and creativity and ensure that students are not losing it along the way.

To highlight the best schools that can ensure those qualities are preserved and built upon, Newsweek partnered with STEM.org to rank the nation’s best STEM high schools.

Conestoga ranked No. 137. According to the list, the best STEM school in America is the School of Science and Engineering in Dallas.

Read more about the nation’s Top 500 STEM High Schools in Newsweek here.