It feels good to be No. 1, but that feeling was lost on Fairfax County’s premiere high school on Tuesday: After five years in the top spot, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology fell to No. 2 on U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of public high schools.

“TJ” was bested by Dallas’s School for Talented and Gifted, which has a studio to teacher ratio of 14:1, smaller than the Alexandria magnet’s 17:1. They both scored perfect “100”s on the college readiness index.