The 47 Best Private High Schools in New York City, Ranked

NEW YORK CITY, NY — America’s largest city may be a dry, dry desert for prestigious public schools, but when it comes to private (read: expensive) high-school education, New York City is No. 1, according to the latest rankings from Niche.com, a popular school ranking and review website.

UPDATE: Out with the old, in with the new: Niche.com just released its updated private-school rankings for 2018.

Of the top 100 private high schools in the nation, NYC stole 10 spots — more than any other city, and even Los Angeles County (which got nine).

NYC also boasts 47 of the top 100 private high schools in New York state, according to Niche.com.

Most of those are either on the Upper East Side or Upper West Side of Manhattan — natch — but a strong six are in Brooklyn, five more in the Bronx, four in Queens and one in Staten Island.

Below, the full Niche.com ranking of NYC’s top private high schools. Got beef with the list? Reach out: simone.wilson@patch.com.

1. Collegiate School, Manhattan
2. Horace Mann School, The Bronx
3. The Chapin School, Manhattan
4. Riverdale Country School, The Bronx
5. Regis High School, Manhattan
6. Dalton School, Manhattan
7. Trinity School, Manhattan
8. Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
9. St. Ann’s School, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
10. Ramaz School, Manhattan
11. Poly Preparatory Country Day School, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn
12. Nightingale-Bamford School, Manhattan
13. Convent of the Sacred Heart, Manhattan
14. CF - Fieldston Middle/Upper School, The Bronx
15. Brearley School, Manhattan
16. Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, Manhattan
17. Brooklyn Friends School, Downtown Brooklyn
18. Friends Seminary, Manhattan
19. Marymount School, Manhattan
20. United Nations International School, Manhattan
21. Lycée Français de New York, Manhattan
22. The Browning School, Manhattan
23. Berkeley Carroll School, Park Slope, Brooklyn
24. Loyola School, Manhattan
25. Abraham Joshua Heschel High School, Manhattan
26. The Hewitt School, Manhattan
27. Dwight School, Manhattan
28. Staten Island Academy, Staten Island
29. The Kew-Forest School, Forest Hills, Queens
30. Calhoun School, Manhattan
31. Birch Wathen Lenox School, Manhattan
32. Dominican Academy, Manhattan
33. SAR High School, The Bronx
34. Professional Children’s School, Manhattan
35. Trevor Day School, Manhattan
36. The Beekman School, Manhattan
37. Robert Louis Stevenson School, Manhattan
38. York Prep School, Manhattan
39. Fordham Preparatory School, The Bronx
40. Manhattan High School for Girls, Manhattan
41. Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School, Flatbush, Brooklyn
42. Xavier High School, Manhattan
43. Yeshiva University High School for Boys, Manhattan
44. Garden School, Jackson Heights, Queens
45. Razi School, Woodside, Queens
46. Notre Dame School, Manhattan
47. The Mary Louis Academy, Jamaica Estates, Queens

Pictured at top: Berkeley Carroll School in Park Slope, Brooklyn, is the 23rd best private school in New York City, according to Niche.com. Photo via Wikimedia Commons