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The 100 Best Private High Schools in New York
A new list created by Niche.com ranks the Empire State's best private high schools.

Niche.com has ranked private high schools across the country and 12 Long Island schools made the list of the top 100 in New York.
The top of the list is dominated by schools located in New York City. The No. 1 ranked private high school in the state is the Collegiate School in Manhattan. The first Long Island school on the list is The Stony Brook School.
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Niche.com rankings are “based on statistics, student and parent reviews, and expert insights. Ranking factors include SAT/ACT scores, the qulity of colleges that students consider, student-teacher ratio, student and parent reviews, and more.”
Here are the top 100 private high schools in the state, according to Niche (the Long Island schools are bolded):
- Collegiate School, New York City
- Horace Mann School, The Bronx
- The Chapin School, New York City
- Riverdale Country School, The Bronx
- Regis High School, New York City
- Dalton School, New York City
- Rye Country Day School, Rye
- Emma Willard School, Troy
- Hackley School, Greenburgh Town
- The Stony Brook School, Stony Brook
- Trinity School, New York City
- Packer Collegiate Institute, New York City
- St. Ann’s School, New York City
- Ramaz School, New York City
- Poly Preparatory Country Day School, New York City
- Nightingale-Bamford School, New York City
- Convent of the Sacred Heart, New York City
- ECF - Fieldston Middle/Upper School, The Bronx
- Brearley School, New York City
- Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, New York City
- Brooklyn Friends School, New York City
- Friends Seminary, New York City
- Marymount School, New York City
- United Nations International School - Manhattan Campus, New York City
- Lycée Français de New York, New York City
- Portledge School, Locust Valley
- Manlius Pebble Hill School, De Witt Town
- The Browning School, New York City
- The Masters School, Greenburgh Town
- Berkeley Carroll School, New York City
- Loyola School, New York City
- Abraham Joshua Heschel High School, New York City
- The Albany Academies, Albany
- Allendale Columbia School, Pittsford Town
- The Hewitt School, New York City
- Dwight School, New York City
- Oakwood Friends School, Poughkeepsie Town
- Staten Island Academy, Staten Island
- The Kew-Forest School, New York City
- Nichols School, Buffalo
- School of the Holy Child, Harrison
- Calhoun School, New York City
- Birch Wathen Lenox School, New York City
- Dominican Academy, New York City
- SAR High School, The Bronx
- The Harley School, Brighton
- EF Academy - International Boarding Schools, Greenburgh Town
- Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns & Rockaway - High School, Cedarhurst
- Rockland Country Day School, Clarkstown Town
- Christian Brothers Academy, De Witt Town
- Thornton-Donovan School, New Rochelle
- New York Military Academy, Firthcliffe
- Doane Stuart School, Rensselaer
- Millbrook School, Washington Town
- Professional Children’s School, New York City
- The Solomon Schechter School of Westchester, Greenburgh Town
- Trevor Day School, New York City
- Nardin Academy, Buffalo
- The Beekman School, New York City
- The Ursuline School, New Rochelle
- Northwood School, North Elba Town
- North Shore Hebrew Academy High School, Great Neck
- The Storm King School, Cornwall-on-Hudson
- Houghton Academy, Houghton
- Robert Louis Stevenson School, New York City
- York Prep School, New York City
- Poughkeepsie Day School, Poughkeepsie Town
- Fordham Preparatory School, The Bronx
- Manhattan High School for Girls, New York City
- Green Meadow Waldorf School, Ramapo Town
- The Knox School, St. James
- Westchester Hebrew High School, Mamaroneck
- Iona Preparatory School, New Rochelle
- Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC) Middle School & High School, Uniondale
- McQuaid Jesuit Preparatory School, Brighton
- Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School, Ghent Town
- Yeshivah of Flatbush - Joel Braverman High School, New York City
- Notre Dame High School, Southport
- Seton Catholic Central High School, Binghamton
- The Harvey School, Bedford Town
- The Waldorf School of Garden City, Garden City
- Seton Catholic Central, Plattsburgh
- Xavier High School, New York City
- Chaminade High School, Mineola
- Darrow School, New Lebanon Town
- Yeshiva University High School for Boys, New York City
- Our Lady of Mercy High School, Brighton
- Trinity-Pawling School, Pawling Town
- Schechter School of Long Island, Williston Park
- Our Lady of Mercy Academy, Syosset
- Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead
- Buffalo Seminary, Buffalo
- Canisius High School, Buffalo
- Garden School, New York City
- Razi School, New York City
- Notre Dame School, New York City
- The Park School of Buffalo, Amherst Town
- Bishop Kearney High School, Irondequoit
- The Mary Louis Academy, New York City
- Long Island Lutheran Middle/High School, Glen Head
Read more about the Niche’s methodology and see how other schools rank here.
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