Best Private Schools in Rhode Island

A Rhode Island private school made the country's top 100, according to Niche.com's recently released ranking.

Wheeler School ranked 96th in America. St. George's School and Portsmouth Abbery School didn't make the national cut, but were ranked second and third in the Ocean State. Moses Brown School and St. Andrews School rounded out the top five.

The rankings are "based on rigorous analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education along with test scores, college data, and ratings collected from millions of Niche users," according to Niche.com. (Still skeptical? You can pick apart the site's full methodology here.)

Niche has more than 8,000 private schools in its database.

Here are the top 10 private schools in Rhode Island. For the the rest of the list, go here.

1. Wheeler School (Providence)
2. St. George's School (Middletown)
3. Portsmouth Abbey School (Portsmouth)
4. Moses Brown School (Providence)
5. St. Andrews School (Barrington)
6. Rocky Hill School (East Greenwich)
7. Providence Country Day School (East Providence)
8. La Salle Academy (Providence)
9. School One (Providence)
10. Bishop Hendricken (Warwick)

Simone Wilson, Patch staff, contributed to this report