In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by "The Washington Post", the school was ranked 20th in New Jersey and 735th nationwide. In "Newsweek's" May 22, 2007 issue, ranking the country's top high schools, Holmdel High School was listed in 480th place, the ninth-highest ranked school in New Jersey. The school was ranked as the 45th-best public secondary school in New Jersey and the 380th-best in the U.S. in "Newsweek" magazine's listing of "America's Best High Schools" in 2006., and was ranked 426th in the 2005 rankings.