Hudson Valley's Best Public High Schools 2018

HUDSON VALLEY, NY — New York is known to have tons of great schools, providing quality education to the Empire State's youth. The Hudson Valley is no exception, and offers some of the best schools in the state.

Patch got school rankings from Niche.com's 2018 Best Schools in New York list. The rankings are based on criteria such as academics and outcomes, and these are all schools whose graduates routinely go on to the best colleges.

Two Hudson Valley high schools made the top 10 while 28 made the top 100 in these new rankings.

Stuyvesant High School was selected best public high school in New York, but the Hudson Valley's top school, Scarsdale Senior High School, was close behind at No. 7, followed by Rye High School at No. 8.

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

1. Stuyvesant High School (7th in America)
2. Staten Island Technical High School (9th in America)
3. Bronx High School of Science (13th in America)
4. Great Neck South High School (28th in America)
5. Townsend Harris High School (40th in America)
6. Jericho Senior High School (45th in America)
7. Scarsdale Senior High School (60th in America)
8. Rye High School (74th in America)
9. High School Math, Science & Engineering at the City College of New York (95th in America)
10. Pittsford-Mendon High School (106th in America)

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 Hudson Valley high schools who made the list of the Top 100 Public High Schools in New York:

7. Scarsdale Senior High School

8. Rye High School

19. Byram Hills High School

20. Horace Greeley High School

23. Fox Lane High School

26. Mamaroneck High School

29. John Jay High School

31. Hastings High School

33. Bronxville High School

36. Edgemont Junior/Senior High School

38. Briarcliff High School

41. Ardsley High School

48. Harrison High School

51. Pelham Memorial High School

53. White Plains Senior High School

54. Rye Neck Senior High School

56. Nyack Senior High School

58. Blind Brook High School

63. Clarkstown North Senior High School

66. Eastchester Senior High School

71. Tappan Zee High School

75. Yorktown High School

77. Croton-Harmon High School

80. Irvington High School

89. Pleasantville High School

92. Clarkstown South Senior High School

97. Dobbs Ferry High School

98. Somers Senior High School

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