Private Mountain View High School Named Among Best in State

BAY AREA, CA – It's no secret that the Bay Area is home to many of the state's top schools. Public area high schools are often named among the top in the nation, but what about the private schools?

Niche.com has come out with its 2017 rankings of the top 100 private high schools in America, as well as the top 100 private high schools in California. Twenty-three California schools made the list of the 100 best private high schools in the United States (see full list here).

Patch took a look at the local Peninsula and South Bay-area schools that were ranked among the top institutions on the national and state level, from San Francisco to San Jose.

In Mountain View, St. Francis High School was ranked 50th in California.

Twenty-six of the schools from the region landed among the top 100 in California, while eight of those were named among the best in America.

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.)

Here are the private high schools that made the top 100 list in California: (The numbers in parentheses are where the schools ranked among the top 100 in California. The schools that landed on the top national list are also notated):

• The Harker School, San Jose (No. 3 in California, 8th best in America)
• Stanford Online High School, Stanford (No. 4 in California, 10th best in America)
• Castilleja School, Palo Alto (No. 6 in California, 17th best in America)
• Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough (No. 10 in California, 38th best in America)
• Menlo School, Atherton (No. 11 in California, 41st best in America)
• Lick-Wilmerding High School, San Francisco (No. 12 in California, 42nd best in America)
• San Francisco University High School, San Francisco (No. 14 in California, 50th best in America)
• Sacred Heart Schools Atherton, Atherton (No. 20 in California, 81st best in America)
• The Urban School of San Francisco, San Francisco (No. 27 in California)
• Pinewood School, Los Altos Hills (No. 29 in California)
• Woodside Priory School, Portola Valley (No. 45 in California)
• St. Francis High School, Mountain View (No. 50 in California)
• French-American International School - San Francisco, San Francisco (No. 51 in California)
• Bellarmine College Prep School, San Jose (No. 52 in California)
• Notre Dame High School, San Jose (No. 63 in California)
• St. Ignatius College Preparatory School, San Francisco (No. 65 in California)
• The King's Academy, Sunnyvale (No. 66 in California)
• Convent & Stuart Hall, San Francisco (No. 69 in California)
• Lycée Français de San Francisco - Ortega Campus, San Francisco (No. 70 in California)
• Kehillah Jewish High School, Palo Alto (No. 72 in California)
• The Bay School of San Francisco, San Francisco (No. 75 in California)
• Archbishop Mitty High School, San Jose (No. 76 in California)
• Jewish Community High School of the Bay, San Francisco (No. 78 in California)
• Valley Christian High School, San Jose (No. 93 in California)
• Drew School, San Francisco (No. 94 in California)
• San Francisco Waldorf School, San Francisco (No. 99 in California)

>>See the full 2017 Best Private High Schools in America list on Niche.com here.<<

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--Article by Renee Schiavone, Patch staff/Image via Shutterstock