Three Simsbury Schools Ranked Among Best Private High Schools In Connecticut

Editor’s note: We published this story earlier in the week, but here it is again in case you missed it.

By TOM DAVIS (Patch Staff)

Patch recently reported on public schools rankings in the country and Connecticut, but what about private schools?

See how Connecticut’s private schools stack up in this Top 100 Private High Schools list, as ranked by Niche.com.

Nationally, 3,880 high schools were reviewed based on key student statistics and data sourced from various government and public data sets, Niche’s proprietary data, and 123,218 opinion-based survey responses across a variety of topics from 16,688 current students, recent alumni and parents.

Here are the rankings for the top private schools in Connecticut: (You can click on each hyperlink to read for in-depth information on test scores, majors, which colleges students enroll in, and comments from parents and students at the school)

1. The Hotchkiss School (Lakeville)
2. Choate Rosemary Hall (Wallingford)
3. Hopkins School (New Haven)
4. The Taft School (Watertown)
5. Brunswick School (Greenwich)
6. Greenwich Academy (Greenwich)
7. Kent School (Kent)
8. King Low Heywood Thomas School (Stamford)
9. Green Farms Academy (Westport)
10. The Master’s School (West Simsbury)
11. Westminster School (Simsbury)
12. The Cheshire Academy (Cheshire)
13. Miss Porter’s School (Farmington)
14. Williams School (New London)
15. The Loomis Chaffee School (Windsor)
16. Canterbury School (New Milford)
17. Marianapolis Preparatory School (Thompson)
18. Kingswood-Oxford School (West Hartford)
19. Avon Old Farms School (Avon)
20. Westover School (Middlebury)
21. Ethel Walker School (Simsbury)
22. Bridgeport International Academy (Bridgeport)
23. Pomfret School (Pomfret)
24. Baptist Bible Academy (Waterford)
25. Hamden Hall Country Day School (Hamden)
26. Suffield Academy (Suffield)
27. Wooster School (Danbury)
28. American School for the Deaf (West Hartford)
29. Hebrew High School of New England (West Hartford)
30. The Marvelwood School (Kent)
31. Watkinson School (Hartford)
32. Academy of the Holy Family (Baltic)
33. Chase Collegiate School (Waterbury)
34. Christian Heritage School (Trumbull)
35. Sacred Heart Academy (Hamden)
36. Lauralton Hall (Milford)
37. South Kent School (South Kent)
38. West Woods Christian Academy (Hamden)
39. Salisbury School (Salisbury)
40. Fairfield Prep (Fairfield)
41. Putnam Science Academy (Putnam)
42. Hyde School (Woodstock)
43. Holy Cross High School (Waterbury)
44. Immaculate High School (Danbury)
45. Notre Dame High School (Fairfield)
46. The Glenholme School (Washington)
47. Northwest Catholic High School (West Hartford)
48. Xavier High School (Middletown)
49. Trinity Catholic High School (Stamford)
50. Mercy High School (Middletown)
51. St. Joseph High School (Trumbull)
52. St. Paul Catholic High School (Bristol)
53. Notre Dame High School (West Haven)
54. St. Bernard School (Uncasville)
55. Emmanuel Christian Academy (Newington)
56. Praise Power and Prayer Christian School (Windsor)
57. Sacred Heart High School (Waterbury)
58. East Catholic High School (Manchester)
59. St. Thomas More School (Oakdale)
60. Torrington Christian Academy (Torrington)
61. Franklin Academy (East Haddam)
62. Grove School (Madison)
63. The Forman School (Litchfield)
64. Kolbe Cathedral High School (Bridgeport)

Read the full Niche.com report here.