Bethesda Home to Six of Best Private High Schools in Maryland

We’ve recently told you how your public schools rank in Bethesda and Maryland, but what about private schools?

The Holton Arms School in Bethesda leads the state, with 11 other Montgomery County schools landing in the top 25. Of those, six are in Bethesda. Holton Arms was the only Maryland school to rank in the top 100 private schools nationally, coming in at No. 91.

See how Maryland’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 Montgomery County schools on the private school list:

• No. 1, Holton-Arms School, Bethesda
• No. 4, Montrose Christian School, Rockville
• No. 7, Washington Christian Academy, Olney
• No. 9, Landon School, Bethesda
• No. 10, Washington Waldorf School, Bethesda
• No. 14, Georgetown Preparatory School, North Bethesda
• No. 15, Lycee Rochambeau French International School, Bethesda
• No. 17, Barrie School, Silver Spring
• No. 18, Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Bethesda
• No. 20, The Bullis School, Potomac
• No. 22, Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, Olney
• No. 24, German School Washington, D.C., Potomac