For a second straight year, the folks at Pinelands Regional High School have a reason to be proud. U.S. News & World Report has released its 2023-24 Best High School rankings, and Pinelands ranked fourth among Ocean County’s 19 public high schools, just as it did last year.

Pinelands also ranked 205th in New Jersey and 5,898th nationwide. If those numbers don’t sound exciting, remember the magazine ranked 399 of the state’s 476 high schools and 17,680 of the nation’s nearly 25,000 public high…