Best High School Movies of All Time

See what made the honor roll in Rotten Tomatoes' list of the 50 best American high school movies, ranked by adjusted Tomatometer with at least 20 reviews each!

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Grease
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Grease
3.8
Some Kind of Wonderful
3.5
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
3.7
Better Off Dead...
3.8
Better Luck Tomorrow
3.7
Pretty in Pink
3.6
Brick
3.5
Love & Basketball
3.8
Clueless
3.2
Fame
3.2
Friday Night Lights
3.4
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
3.8
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
3
Peggy Sue Got Married
3
Rocket Science
3.4
Bully
3.8
My Bodyguard
3.5
Sixteen Candles
3.5
Mean Girls
3.3
River's Edge
3.7
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
3.8
Dead Poets Society
3.9
Donnie Darko
4.2
Easy A
3.7
Chronicle
3.6
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
4.2
Hoosiers
3.5
21 Jump Street
3.7
The Breakfast Club
3.8
Dope
3.4
Superbad
3.9
Rushmore
4
Election
3.7
Ghost World
3.8
House Party
3.1
Dazed and Confused
3.9
Hairspray
3.4
Heathers
3.7
The Spectacular Now
3.8
Carrie
3.8

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