How Montgomery Co. High Schools Compared In New Ranking

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA — Ten different high schools around Montgomery County are among the top ranked public high schools in Pennsylvania, according to Niche's just released 2026 Best Public High Schools in America.

It comes just week after the more strictly qualitative ranking put out by U.S. News and World Report placed nine local schools in its top 50, albeit a very different group. Four of the top 50 from that ranking — Upper Dublin, Jenkintown, Perkiomen Valley, and Springfield Township — did not make the cut of the top 50 in Niche's list.

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.

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.

Here are the Montgomery County high schools that placed in Niche's 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
39. Lower Moreland High School, Lower Moreland
42. North Penn High School, Towamencin
47. Methacton High School, Eagleville

See the full top 50 from Niche here.