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These Are NYC's Top 100 Schools, New Ranking Says

Niche.com ranked private, public and charter schools.

NEW YORK, NY – How's this for comprehensive: The best schools in New York City have been ranked and include private, public and charter schools of all grade levels.

Niche.com, which specializes in educational rankings, released the 2019 list.

Private schools greatly outnumber public on the list, though they certainly have some competition. The public Stuyvesant High School comes in at number 6.

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The private Trinity School is classed as the city's best.

Niche's methodology is based on an analysis of academic and student-life data from the US Department of Education along with test scores and feedback from Niche.com users. You can read more about the methodology by clicking here.

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Here's the top 100 schools that made the grade:

  1. Trinity School (private)
  2. Regis High School (private)
  3. Collegiate School (private)
  4. The Windsor School (private)
  5. Horace Mann School (private)
  6. Stuyvesant High School (public)
  7. Staten Island Technical High School (public)
  8. Dalton School (private)
  9. Brearley School (private)
  10. Riverdale Country School (private)
  11. The Chapin School (private)
  12. Bronx High School of Science (public)
  13. Townsend Harris High School (public)
  14. Packer Collegiate Institute (private)
  15. Poly Prep Country Day School (private)
  16. Convent of the Sacred Heart (private)
  17. The Spence School (private)
  18. Friends Seminary (private)
  19. United Nations International School - Manhattan Campus (private)
  20. Marymount School of New York (private)
  21. Saint Ann's School (private)
  22. ECF - Fieldston Middle/Upper School (private)
  23. Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School (private)
  24. Berkeley Carroll School (private)
  25. Nightingale-Bamford School (private)
  26. High School Math Science & Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY) (public)
  27. Ramaz School (private)
  28. Lycée Français de New York (private)
  29. Brooklyn Technical High School (public)
  30. Dwight Global Online School (online school)
  31. Loyola School (private)
  32. Avenues: The World School (private)
  33. Bard High School Early College Queens (public)
  34. The Browning School (private)
  35. High School of American Studies at Lehman College (public)
  36. Baccalaureate School for Global Education (public)
  37. SAR High School (private)
  38. Dwight School (private)
  39. Fordham Preparatory School (private)
  40. Queens High School for the Sciences at York College (public)
  41. Grace Church School (private)
  42. Trevor Day School (private)
  43. Heschel High School (private)
  44. Eleanor Roosevelt High School (public)
  45. The Calhoun School (private)
  46. Dominican Academy (private)
  47. Bard High School Early College (public)
  48. The Hewitt School (private)
  49. Brooklyn Friends School (private)
  50. Birch Wathen Lenox School (private)
  51. Staten Island Academy (private)
  52. New Explorations into Science,Technology & Math School (public)
  53. Professional Children's School (private)
  54. The Brooklyn Latin School (public)
  55. The Beacon School (public)
  56. Pine Street School (private)
  57. Xavier High School (private)
  58. The Kew-Forest School (private)
  59. Fiorello H. Laguardia High School Of Music & Art & Performing Arts (public)
  60. Success Academy Charter School - Bedford Stuyvesant Campus No. 1 (public)
  61. Léman Manhattan Preparatory School (private)
  62. Success Academy Charter School - Bronx 2 (charter)
  63. Scholars' Academy (public)
  64. York Prep School (private)
  65. Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences (public)
  66. South Bronx Classical Charter School (charter)
  67. Manhattan High School for Girls (private)
  68. Success Academy Charter School - Bronx 1 (charter)
  69. Yeshiva University High School for Boys (private)
  70. NYC Lab High School for Collaborative Studies (public)
  71. Maspeth High School (public)
  72. Millennium High School (public)
  73. KIPP Infinity Charter School (charter)
  74. P.S. 186 - Castlewood (public)
  75. Harlem Success Academy Charter School 5 (public)
  76. Ballet Tech - The New York City Public School for Dance (public)
  77. Icahn Charter School 4 (charter)
  78. Yeshivah of Flatbush - Joel Braverman High School (private)
  79. P.S. 98 - The Douglaston School (public)Harlem Success Academy Charter School 4
  80. Harlem Success Academy Charter School 4 (public)
  81. NYC Lab Middle School for Collaborative Studies (public)
  82. Léman Manhattan Preparatory School (private)
  83. Archbishop Molloy High School (private)
  84. Garden School (private)
  85. Millennium Brooklyn High School (public)
  86. P.S. 41 - Crocheron (public)
  87. P.S. 46 - Alley Pond (public)
  88. Manhattan Center for Science & Mathematics (public)
  89. Neighborhood Charter School of Harlem (public)
  90. Columbia Secondary School (public)
  91. The Beekman School (private)
  92. Francis Lewis High School (public)
  93. P.S. 59 - Beekman Hill International (public)
  94. Success Academy Harlem 1 (charter)
  95. Manhattan Hunter Science High School (public)
  96. Xaverian High School (private)
  97. P.S. 89 - Liberty School (public)
  98. P.S. 212 - Midtown West (public)
  99. P.S. 221Q The North Hills School (public)
  100. Midwood High School at Brooklyn College (public)

Tom Davis, Patch, contributed to this report
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