The phrase 'ranking out of' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe the relative performance of a person or thing when considered alongside other persons or things in a group. For example: My school ranked 5th out of 20 in the statewide academic competition.
27 Tennessee's regular-season ranking out of 32 N.F.L. teams in average passing yards a game.
We knew that our first-place ranking out of the 68 fantasy football experts for the FantasyPros.com Start/Sit Challenge might not last for long.
"It's nice to have the lead going into tomorrow, no doubt," McIlroy said, adding, "I definitely feel like I need to put the No. 1 ranking out of my mind tomorrow.
It features someone who has constructed a No. 1 ranking out of playing consistently through a season loaded with tournaments (Wozniacki), something Williams has rarely managed or even tried to do.
Nguyen Vinh Hien, a deputy minister for education, characterised Vietnam's overall 17th-place ranking out of 65 countries and economies as a pleasant "surprise".The PISA scores, as they are known, measured how a half-million students from randomly selected schools answered written and multiple-choice questions in a two-hour test.
In a measure of the misery that still prevails in Kyrgyzstan, the country's president, Roza Otunbayeva, said Wednesday that one of her goals was to lift the country above its 164th place ranking, out of 178, on the Transparency International index of corruption.
The WWE Title match was ranked 8 out of 10, while Kane vs the Big Show was ranked 6 out of 10.
In 2015, Brazil ranked 103 out of 162: not great, but better than Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
In the global ranking of out-of-school children, Pakistan is in second place.
The ranks of out-of-town furniture sellers have thinned this year.
Cambridge gets a third and drops 17 places, now ranking 113th out of 143.
