Great Neck High Schools Ranked Among Top Schools in New York

By Ryan Bonner

Niche.com has released its 2016 ”Best Public High Schools in America” list, with 29 Long Island schools among the top 100 in New York.

The top ranked school in New York is Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. The first Long Island school on the list is Jericho Senior High School, which ranked No. 3 in the state and No. 13 nationwide.

Right behind Jericho is Great Neck South High School ranked No. 5 in the state and No. 23 nationwide. The school moved up in rankings from No. 7 in 2015 to No. 5 in 2016.

Great Neck North High School is ranked No. 26 in the state. GNN dropped from No. 23 in 2015 to No. 26 in 2016.

Overall, Long Island schools took a dip in the rankings compared to Niche’s 2015 list, which included 35 Long Island high schools among the top 100 in New York.

“The school is great and helps you for the future,” a GNS student wrote in a review of the school on Niche. “The students are always trying to be better than others by any means necessary.”

Here are the Long Island high schools that made the 2016 top 100 list in New York (click the links for more details on each school’s ranking):

• No. 3- Jericho Senior High School
• No. 5- Great Neck South High School
• No. 16- Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School
• No. 19- Syosset Senior High School
• No. 25- Harborfields High School
• No. 26- Great Neck North High School
• No. 27- Roslyn High School
• No. 30- Manhasset Secondary School
• No. 35- George W. Hewlett High School
• No. 41- Herricks High School
• No. 45- Half Hollow Hills High School East
• No. 46- Garden City High School
• No. 47- Westhampton Beach Senior High School
• No. 48- Bay Shore Senior High School
• No. 50- Cold Spring Harbor High School
• No. 51- North Shore Senior High School
• No. 54- Southampton High School
• No. 57- Lynbrook Senior High School
• No. 59- Half Hollow Hills High School West
• No. 64- Wheatley School
• No. 68- Walt Whitman High School
• No. 69- Oceanside High School
• No. 78- Commack High School
• No. 79- Bethpage Senior High School
• No. 89- Long Beach Senior High School
• No. 92- South Side High School
• No. 96- Mount Sinai High School
• No. 97- East Hampton High School
• No. 99- Smithtown High School West

Click here to see Niche’s full list of the top 100 public high schools in New York. You can also search for and see rankings of schools that fall outside the top 100. Read about how Niche compiled the rankings here.

The annual U.S. News and World Report high school rankings released earlier this year included 11 Long Island high schools among the top 50 in the state. Garden City High School was the top ranked Long Island school on that list.

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