John Carroll Ranked Among Top Private High Schools In Maryland

BEL AIR, MD — Maryland has dozens of great private K-12 and high schools to choose from, according to the latest ranking from Niche.com. In its list for 2019, the education and real estate website ranked the top 60 private high schools in Maryland with an "A" grade. On the list was one school in Bel Air: The John Carroll School.

John Carroll was ranked No. 58. It was the only school in Harford County to make the top 60. It is also ranked No. 17 on Niche.com's list of best Catholic high schools in Maryland.

The rankings are "based on rigorous analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education along with test scores, college data and ratings collected from millions of Niche users," according to Niche.com.

(Still skeptical? You can pick apart the site's full methodology here.)

These are the top private schools in Maryland for 2019, according to Niche.com:

1. Holton-Arms School, Bethesda
2. Gilman School, Baltimore
3. The Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore
4. Landon School, Bethesda
5. Georgetown Preparatory School, North Bethesda
6. The Key School, Annapolis
7. McDonogh School, Owings Mills
8. The Bullis School, Potomac
9. Park School, Baltimore
10. Saint James School, Hagerstown
11. Friends School of Baltimore, Baltimore
12. Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Bethesda
13. St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Potomac
14. Glenelg Country School, Ellicott City
15. Roland Park Country School, Baltimore
16. The Heights School, Potomac
17. Severn School, Severna Park
18. Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, Pikesville
19. Rochambeau French International School, Bethesda
20. Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, Rockville
21. Loyola Blakefield, Towson
22. Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, Olney
23. St. Paul's School, Brooklandville
24. Sandy Spring Friends School, Sandy Spring
25. The Boys' Latin School of Maryland, Baltimore
26. St. Timothy's School, Stevenson
27. St. Paul's School for Girls, Brooklandville
28. Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson
29. The Academy of the Holy Cross, Kensington
30. Washington Waldorf School, Bethesda
31. West Nottingham Academy, Colora
32. Garrison Forest School, Owings Mills
33. Worcester Preparatory School, Berlin
34. Washington Christian Academy, Olney
35. Connelly School of the Holy Child, Potomac
36. Barrie School, Silver Spring
37. Calvert Hall College High School, Towson
38. Maryvale Preparatory School, Lutherville
39. The Salisbury School, Salisbury
40. Archbishop Spalding High School, Severn
41. The Gunston School, Centreville
42. Indian Creek School, Crownsville
43. McLean School, Potomac
44. Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy, Rockville
45. The Calverton School, Huntingtown
46. Dematha Catholic High School, Hyattsville
47. Spencerville Adventist Academy, Spencerville
48. Gerstell Academy, Finksburg
49. Annapolis Area Christian School, Severn
50. Al-Huda School, College Park
51. St. Maria Goretti High School, Hagerstown
52. The Tome School, North East
53. Oldfields School, Sparks Glencoe
54. Mount de Sales Academy, Baltimore
55. St. Mary's Ryken High School, Leonardtown
56. Covenant Life School, Gaithersburg
57. Mount Saint Joseph High School, Baltimore
58. The John Carroll School, Bel Air
59. Chapelgate Christian Academy, Marriottsville
60. St. Mary's High School, Annapolis

See the full list of Maryland private high schools here.

— By Patch editors Brian McCready, Deb Belt and Elizabeth Janney

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