Long Island’s Best Public High Schools in 2017

With all the attention on public education of late because of the contentious confirmation fight of Betsy DeVos as secretary of Education, this report card on New York public schools couldn't come at a better time.

The list of the best public high schools in New York was compiled by Niche.com based on criteria such as academics and outcomes.

Four Long Island high schools made the top 10 while 35 made the top 100.

Stuyvesant High School was selected best public high school in New York, but Long Island’s top school, Great Neck South High School, was close behind at No. 3, according to the rankings.

Niche’s Top 10 best public high schools in New York:

1. Stuyvesant High School
2. Staten Island Technical High School
3. Great Neck South High School
4. Roslyn High School
5. Townsend Harris High School
6. Bronx High School of Science
7. Jericho Senior High School
8. Rye High School
9. Bryam Hills High School
10. Syosset Senior High School

Niche, a website for researching schools, used a variety of factors, including SAT/ACT scores, student-teacher ratio, the quality of colleges students consider and reviews from students and parents for its ranking.

Here are the Long Island high schools who made the list of the Top 100 Public High Schools in New York:

No. 3— Great Neck South High School
No. 4— Roslyn High School
No. 7— Jericho Senior High School
No. 10— Syosset Senior High School
No. 13— Wheatley School in Old Westbury
No. 17— Half Hollow Hills High School East in Dix Hills
No. 20— Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School in Port Washington
No. 21— George W. Hewlett High School
No. 22— Great Neck North High School
No. 26— Half Hollow Hills High School West in Dix Hills
No. 28— Manhasset Secondary School
No. 33— Cold Spring Harbor High School
No. 36— Harborfields High School in Greenlawn
No. 37— Herricks High School in New Hyde Park
No. 38— Garden City High School
No. 41— Westhampton Beach Senior High School
No. 42— Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School
No. 46— Southampton High School
No. 47— North Shore Senior High School in Glen Head
No. 48— Huntington High School
No. 55— Commack High School
No. 59— Ward Melville Senior High School in East Setauket
No. 61— Bay Shore Senior High School
No. 63— South Side High School in Rockville Centre
No. 66— Wellington C. Mepham High School in Bellmore
No. 69— Oyster Bay High School
No. 70— Oceanside High School
No. 72— East Hampton High School
No. 74— Bethpage Senior High School
No. 75— Walt Whitman High School in Huntington Station
No. 78— Locust Valley High School
No. 88— Lynbrook Senior High School
No. 89— John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore
No. 97— Sanford H. Calhoun High School in Merrick
No. 98— Smithtown High School - Western Campus

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