White Plains School Ranked Among NY's Best Group of Teachers in 2016

New York's best group of high school teachers for 2016 is at Jericho Senior High School, according to a new ranking from reviews website Niche.com.

One hundred public high schools in the state are listed, and it is based on several criteria that gave the most weight to the opinions of students and parents. Click here to view the full methodology.

"Ranking based on student and parent reviews of teachers, teacher salaries, teacher absenteeism, teacher tenure, student-teacher ratio, and the Niche Academics Grade for the school," according to Niche.

Great Neck South High School in Lake Success has the second-best crop of teachers, according to Niche, followed by Scarsdale Senior High School, Great Neck North High School in Great Neck, and Byram Hills High School in North Castle.

Nationally, the best crop of teachers is at Louisiana School for Math, Science & The Arts, according to Niche, followed by New Jersey's Bergen County Technical High School - Teterboro, and Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL. Rounding out the top five are High Technology High School and Bergen County Academies, both in New Jersey.

Below is the list of the New York high schools with the best teachers (national rank is in parentheses):

1. Jericho Senior High School, Jericho (#18 nationally)
2. Great Neck South High School, Lake Success (#19)
3. Scarsdale Senior High School, Scarsdale (#22)
4. Great Neck North High School, Great Neck (#35)
5. Byram Hills High School, North Castle (#47)
6. Syosset Senior High School, Syosset (#51)
7. Rye High School, Rye (#56)
8. Brighton High School, Brighton (#71)
9. Briarcliff High School, Mount Pleasant (#90)
10. Herricks High School, Searingtown
11. Pittsford-Mendon High School, Pittsford
12. Horace Greeley High School, New Castle
13. Pittsford Sutherland High School, Pittsford
14. Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills
15. Edgemont Junior/Senior High School, Scarsdale
16. Roslyn High School, Roslyn Heights
17. Ardsley High School, Ardsley
18. Harborfields High School, Greenlawn
19. Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham
20. Commack High School, Commack
21. Wheatley School, Old Westbury
22. Harrison High School, Harrison
23. Fayetteville-Manlius Senior High School, Manlius
24. Skaneateles Senior High School, Skaneateles
25. White Plains Senior High School, White Plains
26. Westhampton Beach Senior High School, Westhampton Beach
27. Bronxville High School, Bronxville
28. Rye Neck Senior High School, Rye
29. Williamsville East High School, Amherst
30. Bay Shore Senior High School, Bay Shore
31. Dobbs Ferry High School, Dobbs Ferry
32. Suffern Senior High School, Montebello
33. Niskayuna High School, Niskayuna
34. Clarkstown North Senior High School, New City
35. South Side High School, Rockville Centre
36. Locust Valley High School, Lattingtown
37. Oceanside High School, Oceanside
38. Sleepy Hollow High School, Sleepy Hollow
39. John Jay High School, Lewisboro
40. George W. Hewlett High School, Hewlett Bay Park
41. Clarkstown South Senior High School, Bardonia
42. Floral Park Memorial High School, Floral Park
43. Elmont Memorial High School, Elmont
44. Bethpage Senior High School, Bethpage
45. Southampton High School, Southampton
46. Half Hollow Hills High School West, Dix Hills
47. Hastings High School, Hastings-on-Hudson
48. Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School, Port Washington
49. Manhasset Secondary School, Manhasset
50. Mamaroneck High School, Mamaroneck
51. North Salem Middle/High School, North Salem
52. Sanford H. Calhoun High School, Merrick
53. New Hartford Senior High School, New Hartford
54. Croton-Harmon High School, Croton-on-Hudson
55. Smithtown High School East, St. James
56. Carle Place Middle Senior High School, Carle Place
57. Walt Whitman High School, West Hills
58. Cold Spring Harbor High School, Cold Spring Harbor
59. North Shore Senior High School, Glen Head
60. Earl L. Vandermeulen High School, Port Jefferson
61. Ossining High School, Ossining
62. Smithtown High School - Western Campus, Smithtown
63. John F. Kennedy High School, Bellmore
64. Williamsville North High School, Amherst
65. Garden City High School, Garden City
66. Pleasantville High School, Pleasantville
67. Arlington High School, Freedom Plains
68. Fox Lane High School, Bedford
69. Yorktown High School, Yorktown
70. Yonkers High School, Yonkers
71. New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle
72. Penfield Senior High School, Penfield
73. Mount Sinai High School, Mount Sinai
74. P.S. 195 - City Honors School, Buffalo
75. Victor Senior High School, Victor
76. Baldwin Senior High School, Baldwin
77. Nyack Senior High School, Valley Cottage
78. Wellington C. Mepham High School, North Bellmore
79. Lynbrook Senior High School, Lynbrook
80. Tappan Zee High School, Orangeburg
81. Spackenkill High School, Spackenkill
82. East Meadow High School, East Meadow
83. Williamsville South High School, Amherst
84. Ward Melville Senior High School, Brookhaven
85. Ithaca Senior High School, Ithaca
86. P.S. 304 - Hutchinson Central Technical High School, Buffalo
87. Ballston Spa Senior High School, Ballston
88. Rhinebeck Senior High School, Rhinebeck
89. Charles W. Baker High School, Baldwinsville
90. Bethlehem Central Senior High School, Bethlehem
91. New Paltz Senior High School, New Paltz
92. Long Beach Senior High School, Lido Beach
93. Haldane High School, Cold Spring
94. James I. O'Neill High School, Fort Montgomery
95. Jamesville-Dewitt High School, De Witt
96. Somers Senior High School, Somers
97. Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, Plainview
98. Pierson Middle/High School, Sag Harbor
99. Massapequa High School, East Massapequa
100. Gen. Douglas MacArthur Senior High School, Levittown

Click here to view the full New York list, and click here to view the full national list.

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