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100 High Schools With Best Teachers in NY

The national list ranks 5,886 public high schools based on teaching statistics and about 920,000 ratings from 240,000 students and parents.

Do you think your high school’s teachers are the best?

Niche.com recently released its 2015 list of high schools with the best teachers throughout the nation, as well as the state of New York, and many schools you’ll recognize received high ranks.

More than half of the top-100 list in New York is made up of Long Island schools.

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Niche ranked more than 100,000 public and private schools and districts based on dozens of statistics and 27 million opinions from 300,000 students and parents. View the full methodology here.

Here is a look at the state’s high schools with the best teachers as ranked by Niche.com:

  1. Great Neck South High School, Great Neck
  2. Jericho Senior High School, Jericho
  3. Scarsdale Senior High School, Scarsdale
  4. Syosset Senior High School, Syosset
  5. Byram Hills High School, Armonk
  6. Roslyn High School, Roslyn Heights
  7. Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua
  8. Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills
  9. Herricks High School, New Hyde Park
  10. Dobbs Ferry High School, Dobbs Ferry
  11. Brighton High School, Rochester
  12. Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham
  13. Wheatley School, Old Westbury
  14. Commack High School, Commack
  15. Westhampton Beach Senior High School, Westhampton Beach
  16. Harrison High School, Harrison
  17. Ardsley High School, Ardsley
  18. Floral Park Memorial High School, Floral Park
  19. Pittsford Sutherland High School, Pittsford
  20. Oceanside High School, Oceanside
  21. Elmont Memorial High School, Elmont
  22. Harborfields High School, Greenlawn
  23. South Side High School, Rockville Centre
  24. Bethpage Senior High School, Bethpage
  25. Suffern Senior High School, Suffern
  26. Clarkstown North Senior High School, New City
  27. Clarkstown South Senior High School, West Nyack
  28. North Salem Middle/High School, North Salem
  29. Garden City High School, Garden City
  30. North Shore Senior High School, Glen Head
  31. Pittsford-Mendon High School, Pittsford
  32. Locust Valley High School, Locust Valley
  33. John Jay High School, Cross River
  34. Half Hollow Hills High School West, Dix Hills
  35. Mount Sinai High School, Mount Sinai
  36. Mamaroneck High School, Mamaroneck
  37. Skaneateles Senior High School, Skaneateles
  38. Smithtown High School - Western Campus, Smithtown
  39. Sanford H. Calhoun High School, Merrick
  40. Baldwin Senior High School, Baldwin
  41. Fayetteville-Manlius Senior High School, Manlius
  42. Tappan Zee High School, Orangeburg
  43. George W. Hewlett High School, Hewlett
  44. White Plains Senior High School, White Plains
  45. Lynbrook Senior High School, Lynbrook
  46. Southampton High School, Southampton
  47. Smithtown High School East, Saint James
  48. John H. Glenn High School, Elwood
  49. Hastings High School, Hastings On Hudson
  50. Spackenkill High School, Poughkeepsie
  51. Northport Senior High School, Northport
  52. Sleepy Hollow High School, Sleepy Hollow
  53. Earl L. Vandermeulen High School, Port Jefferson
  54. Fox Lane High School, Bedford
  55. Bay Shore Senior High School, Bay Shore
  56. Walt Whitman High School, Huntington Station
  57. Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School, Port Washington
  58. John F. Kennedy High School, Bellmore
  59. Mattituck Junior/Senior High School, Mattituck
  60. Williamsville East High School, East Amherst
  61. H. Frank Carey High School, Franklin Square
  62. Niskayuna High School, Schenectady
  63. Croton-Harmon High School, Croton On Hudson
  64. Victor Senior High School, Victor
  65. Arlington High School, Lagrangeville
  66. Penfield Senior High School, Penfield
  67. Ossining High School, Ossining
  68. Ballston Spa Senior High School, Ballston Spa
  69. Bethlehem Central Senior High School, Delmar
  70. Wellington C. Mepham High School, Bellmore
  71. Sewanhaka High School, Floral Park
  72. Massapequa High School, Massapequa
  73. East Meadow High School, East Meadow
  74. Ward Melville Senior High School, East Setauket
  75. Red Hook Senior High School, Red Hook
  76. Lawrence Senior High School, Cedarhurst
  77. Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School, Copiague
  78. Jamesville-Dewitt High School, Dewitt
  79. Island Trees High School, Levittown
  80. Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights
  81. Gen. Douglas MacArthur Senior High School, Levittown
  82. New Hyde Park Memorial High School, New Hyde Park
  83. Somers Senior High School, Lincolndale
  84. Carmel High School, Carmel
  85. Valley Stream Central High School, Valley Stream
  86. Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, Plainview
  87. Woodlands Senior High School, Hartsdale
  88. Irondequoit High School, Rochester
  89. New Paltz Senior High School, New Paltz
  90. Nyack Senior High School, Upper Nyack
  91. Shoreham-Wading River High School, Shoreham
  92. Valley Stream South High School, Valley Stream
  93. Malverne Senior High School, Malverne
  94. Valley Stream North High School, Franklin Square
  95. P.S. 195 - City Honors School, Buffalo
  96. Orchard Park High School, Orchard Park
  97. Islip High School, Islip
  98. Hendrick Hudson High School, Montrose
  99. Yonkers High School, Yonkers
  100. New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle

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