NYC's 55 Best Public High Schools: U.S. News Releases 2016 Rankings

NEW YORK CITY, NY — It's that time of year again! That time of year when, just as the students of NYC Schools begin to feel summer's heat wiggle up from the asphalt like an exotic street mirage, their helicopter parents have already begun obsessing over the following fall — wait lists, AP classes, extracurricular laundry lists and, inevitably, school rankings.

Enter U.S. News and World Report, school ranker extraordinaire. Right on time to either puff or shatter one's seasonal sense of parenthood with its annual master list of the nation's public high schools, listed in order of their ability to prepare one's kid for college.

The rankings "include data on more than 21,000 public high schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia," according to U.S. News & World Report. "Schools were awarded gold, silver or bronze medals based on their performance on state assessments, their graduation rates and how well they prepare students for college."

This year, special for NYC heli moms and heli dads, we've separated out the city's top 55 public high schools and labeled them by borough.

All 55 schools on the list fall within New York State's top 220.

Brooklyn's top 10 are emphasized in bold. You'll notice some changes from last year — namely, that Williamsburg Preparatory School in Williamsburg, Achievement First Crown Heights Charter School in Prospect Lefferts-Gardens and the High School of Telecommunications Arts and Technology in Bay Ridge have completely dropped off.

And in their place for 2016, we're now seeing Midwood High School in Flatbush, New Utrecht High School in Bensonhurst and Fort Hamilton High School in Bay Ridge crawl up the list.

Take a deep breath. Full rankings below.

1. High School of American Studies at Lehman College, Bronx, NY (No. 15 nationally)

2. KIPP Academy Charter School, Bronx, NY (No. 17 nationally)

3. Brooklyn Latin School, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY (No. 25 nationally)

4. Staten Island Technical High School, Staten Island, NY (No. 28 nationally)

5. Baccalaureate School for Global Education, Long Island City, Queens, NY (No. 32 nationally)

6. Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, Jamaica, NY (No. 38 nationally)

7. Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, NY (No. 59 nationally)

8. Townsend Harris High School, Flushing, Queens, NY (No. 60 nationally)

9. High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies, Manhattan, NY (No. 83 nationally)

10. Stuyvesant High School, Manhattan, NY (No. 89 nationally)

11. High School Math Science and Engineering at CCNY, Manhattan, NY (No. 90 nationally)

12. Brooklyn Technical High School, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY (No. 96 nationally)

13. Columbia Secondary School, Manhattan, NY (No.141 nationally)

14. Manhattan Bridges High School, Manhattan, NY (No. 142 nationally)

15. New Explorations Into Science, Tech and Math High School, Manhattan, NY (No. 143 nationally)

16. Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Manhattan, NY (No. 144 nationally)

17. Fiorello H Laguardia High School, Manhattan, NY (No. 208 nationally)

18. Leon M Goldstein High School for the Sciences, Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, NY (No. 429 nationally)

19. Baruch College Campus High School, Manhattan, NY (No. 591 nationally)

20. Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School, Manhattan, NY (No. 651 nationally)

21. Millennium High School, Manhattan, NY (No. 688 nationally)

22. Academy of American Studies, Long Island City, Queens, NY (No. 705 nationally)

23. NYC Lab High School for Collaborative Studies, Manhattan, NY (No. 779 nationally)

24. New World High School, Bronx, NY (No. 863 nationally)

25. Academy of Finance and Enterprise, Long Island City, Queens, NY (No. 959 nationally)

26. Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, Manhattan, NY (No. 967 nationally)

27. Midwood High School, Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY (No. 1,011 nationally)

28. Queens Gateway to Health Sciences Secondary School, Jamaica, Queens NY (No. 1,034 nationally)

29. NYC iSchool, Manhattan, NY (No. 1,067 nationally)

30. Manhattan Village Academy, Manhattan, NY (No. 1,070 nationally)

31. Democracy Preparatory Charter School, Manhattan, NY (No. 1,178 nationally)

32. Forest Hills High School, Forest Hills, Queens, NY (No. 1,267 nationally)

33. Medgar Evers College Preparatory School, Crown Heights, Brooklyn (No. 1,373 nationally)

34. Bronx Latin School, Bronx, NY (No. 1,375 nationally)

35. Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, Bronx, NY (No. 1,391 nationally)

36. University Prep Charter High School, Bronx, NY (no. 1,402 nationally)

37. NYC Museum School, Manhattan, NY (No. 1,523 nationally)

38. Park East High School, Manhattan, NY (No. 1,564 nationally)

39. Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School, Long Island City, Queens, NY (No. 1,565 nationally)

40. Frederick Douglass Academy, Manhattan, NY (No. 1,570 nationally)

41. Robert F. Kennedy Community High School, Flushing, Queens, NY (No. 1,737nationally)

42. Marble Hill High School of International Studies. Bronx, NY (No. 1,760 nationally)

43. Central Park East High School, Manhattan, NY (No. 1,823 nationally)

44. All City Leadership Secondary School, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY (No. 1,827 nationally)

45. Art and Design High School, Manhattan, NY (No.1,850 nationally)

46. High School for Health Professions and Human Service, Manhattan, NY (No. 1,877 nationally)

47. Beacon High School, Manhattan, NY (No.1,822 nationally)

48. Young Women's Leadership School, Manhattan, NY (No. 2,031 nationally)

49. East-​West School of International Studies, Flushing, Queens, NY (No. 2,059 nationally)

50. Bedford Academy High School, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, NY (No. 2,224 nationally)

51. Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice, Downtown Brooklyn, NY (No. 2,246 nationally)

52. School of the Future High School, Manhattan, NY (No. 2,305 nationally)

53. New Utrecht High School, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY (No. 2,357 nationally)

54. Manhattan International High School, Manhattan, NY (No. 2,505 nationally)

55. Fort Hamilton High School, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY (No. 2,557 nationally)