Andover Still Home to Country's Top Private School

You won't get much better than Phillips Academy when it comes to private schools. Not better at all, in fact. Anywhere in the country.

That's according to Niche.com's rankings of the best private schools in America. You can see the rest of the top private schools around here. Niche has more than 8,000 private schools in its database.

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.)

Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush graduated from Phillips Academy, as did New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, among many others.

Simone Wilson and Alison Bauter, Patch staff, contributed to this report