The article "Transformation processes in modern high school in the USA" is to identify the main trends of US higher education reform and study possibilities of using progressive ideas of the American experience in the national educational space. Theoretical and methodological foundations of the US higher education have been discovered, the basic features of the educational process have been outlined, the essence of the transformation processes that take place in the USA high school has been described, which proved the possibilities of creative use of the USA experience in Ukraine.