Smithtown High Schools Among Best High Schools for 2017: U.S. News and World Report

Two Smithtown high school ranked among the top 100 best high schools in the state according to U.S. News and World Report's annual list of best high schools in the country.

U.S. News recently released their 2017 list, ranking the schools on a national and a state level.

In New York, High School of American Studies at Lehman College in the Bronx earned the title of the best high school in the state. Overall, the school ranked as the 17th best high school in the country.

Not a single Long Island school cracked the Top 10 in state rankings. The first Long Island school in the state rankings was Jericho Senior High School at No. 11.

Locally, both Smithtown High School East and Smithtown High School West made the list at No. 91 and No. 74, respectively. Nationally, they ranked at No. 939 and No. 720, respectively.

Overall, 22 Long Island schools made the Top 100 in the New York State rankings. (scroll down to see which Long Island school made the rankings)

Fifty-five New York high school were given gold medals by U.S. News. Compared to other states, New York came in 12th, with 16.5 percent of the state’s schools receiving silver or gold medals.

The 2017 rankings of best high schools identify the top-performing public schools at both the national and the state level and include data on more than 20,000 high schools. To be considered among the best, high schools had to pass a rigorous four-step process that sought to determine whether a school was serving all of its students and not just those who are college bound.

Long Island schools that made the Top 100 state rankings are:

• No. 11— Jericho Senior High School (National Rank: No. 67)
• No. 20— Garden City High School (National Rank: No. 157)
• No. 21— Great Neck North High School (National Rank: No. 164)
• No. 24— Syosset Senior High School (National Rank: No. 173)
• No. 25— Manhasset Secondary School (National Rank: No. 177)
• No. 30— Great Neck South High School (National Rank: No. 195)
• No. 31— Cold Spring Harbor High School (National Rank: No. 196)
• No. 32— Roslyn High School (National Rank: No. 208)
• No. 33— Herricks High School (National Rank: No. 213)
• No. 36— Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School (National Rank: No. 36)
• No. 37— North Shore Senior High School (National Rank: No. 234)
• No. 39— Harborfields High School (National Rank: No. 247)
• No. 41— Earl L. Vandermeulen High School (National Rank: No. 344)
• No. 46— Plainview Old Bethpage JFK High School (National Rank: No. 381)
• No. 52— Half Hollow Hills High School East (National Rank: No. 428)
• No. 59— Half Hollow Hills High School West (National Rank: No. 588)
• No. 62— John F. Kennedy High School (National Rank: No. 612)
• No. 74— Smithtown High School-West (National Rank: No. 720)
• No. 80— Ward Melville Senior High School (National Rank: No. 795)
• No. 85— Lynbrook Senior High School (National Rank: No. 877)
• No. 87— Gen. Douglas MacArthur Senior High School (National Rank: No. 896)
• No. 91— Smithtown High School-East (National Rank: No. 939)

Click here to see the full list for New York.

Feroze Dhanoa contributed to this story.