25 Best Hudson Valley High Schools: U.S. News Rankings 2016

Editor’s Note: This story was first published earlier in the week but here it is again in case you missed it.

U.S. News & World Report has just released its top public high schools list nationwide and the good news is 25 Hudson Valley high schools made the top 1,000 list.

A total of 21,000 public high schools across the country were ranked based on student performance on state assessments and graduation rates and how well prepared they were for college.

For more on their methodology, go here.

Nationwide, the top 5 list includes: No. 1, Schools for the Talented and Gifted, Texas, No. 2, BASIS Scottsdale, Arizona, No. 3, BASIS Tucson North, Arizona, No. 4, School of Science and Engineering, Texas, and No. 5, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia.

The Hudson Valley had one high school among the top 100 in the country and 25 among the top 1,000. (Click on the hyperlink for more information on why each school was chosen.)

• No. 85 Rye High School, Rye
• No. 137 Edgemont Junior- Senior High School, Scarsdale
• No. 157 Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua
• No. 171 Pleasantville High School, Pleasantville
• No. 173 Byram Hills High School, Armonk
• No. 174 Rye Neck Senior High School, Mamaroneck, Rye Brook
• No. 177 Blind Brook High School, Rye Brook
• No. 179 Hastings High School, Hastings-on-Hudson
• No. 198 Irvington High School, Irvington
• No. 290 Croton- Harmon High School, Croton-on-Hudson
• No. 308 Briarcliff High School, Briarcliff Manor
• No. 371 Harrison High School, Harrison
• No. 384 John Jay High School, Cross River
• No. 394 Mamaroneck High School, Mamaroneck
• No. 398 Fox Lane High School, Bedford
• No. 407 Ardsley High School, Ardsley
• No. 471 Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham
• No. 518 North Salem Middle School/ High School, North Salem
• No. 570 Scarsdale Senior High School, Scarsdale
• No. 708 Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights
• No. 800 Pearl River High School, Pearl River
• No. 809 Tuckahoe High School, Eastchester
• No. 819 Sleepy Hollow High School, Sleepy Hollow
• No. 844 Rhinebeck Senior High School, Rhinebeck
• No. 870 Spackenkill High School, Poughkeepsie (Spackenskill School District)

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