Plymouth-Whitemarsh Again Places High On New PA School Rankings

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA — Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School is among the top ranked public high schools in Pennsylvania, according to Niche's just released 2026 Best Public High Schools in America

The school placed 25th in the new list, just weeks after it placed a nearly identical 24th on the more strictly qualitative ranking put out by U.S. News and World Report.

The evaluation metrics for the Niche list take input from students, alumni and parents, as well as quantitative data from sources such as the U.S. Department of Education to evaluate teachers, resources and facilities.

Plymouth-Whitemarsh's similar placing on the two lists makes it something of an outlier, as the top 50 of each list looks quite different.

More traditional rankings like U.S. News, which often don't vary much if at all from year to year, go based strictly off of qualitative measurements like standardized test scores.

Other Montgomery County high schools that placed in the top 50:

7. Lower Merion High School, Lower Merion
14. Harriton Senior High School, Lower Merion
18. Wissahickon High School, Ambler
22. Spring-Ford Senior High School, Royersford
25. Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School, Plymouth-Meeting
29. Upper Dublin High School, Upper Dublin
36. Upper Merion High School, Upper Merion
42. North Penn High School, Towamencin
47. Methacton High School, Eagleville

See the full top 50 from Niche here.