White Plains Among Best Public High Schools For 2017

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Good public high schools abound in the Hudson Valley, as Niche.com's 2017 list of the best public high schools in New York shows. 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. White Plains Senior High School is on the list.

Two Hudson Valley high schools made the top 10 while 37 made the top 100.

Stuyvesant High School was selected best public high school in New York, but the Hudson Valley's top school, Rye High School, was close behind at No. 8, with Byram Hills on its heels, 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 Hudson Valley high schools who made the list of the Top 100 Public High Schools in New York:

8. Rye High School, Rye

9. Byram Hills High School, Armonk

12. Edgemont Junior/Senior High School, Scarsdale

14. Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua

15. Briarcliff High School, Briarcliff Manor

16. Fox Lane High School, Bedford

24. Hastings High School, Hastings On Hudson

29. Bronxville High School, Bronxville

30. Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham

31. John Jay High School, Cross River

32. Rye Neck Senior High School, Mamaroneck

35. Ardsley High School, Ardsley

39. White Plains Senior High School, White Plains

40. Suffern Senior High School, Suffern

44. Mamaroneck High School, Mamaroneck

45. Blind Brook High School, Rye Brook

53. Harrison High School, Harrison

54. Tappan Zee High School, Orangeburg

56. Clarkstown North Senior High School, New City

57. Scarsdale Senior High School, Scarsdale

60. Sleepy Hollow High School, Sleepy Hollow

67. New Paltz Senior High School, New Paltz

68. Nyack Senior High School, Upper Nyack

73. Dobbs Ferry High School, Dobbs Ferry

76. Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights

77. Hendrick Hudson High School, Montrose

81. Clarkstown South Senior High School, West Nyack

82. Irvington High School, Irvington

83. Pleasantville High School, Pleasantville

84. Haldane High School, Cold Spring

90. James I. O'Neill High School, Fort Montgomery

91. New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle

93. Croton-Harmon High School, Croton On Hudson

94. Eastchester Senior High School, Eastchester

95. Somers Senior High School, Lincolndale

96. Spackenkill High School, Poughkeepsie

100. Ossining High School, Ossining

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SEE ALSO:

• The Best Public Elementary Schools In Hudson Valley For 2017
  
• The Best Middle Schools In the Hudson Valley For 2017