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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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In addition, Niche ranked schools with the best extracurriculars, facilities, food,outcomes, sports and more.
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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:
- Great Neck South High School, Great Neck
- Jericho Senior High School, Jericho
- Scarsdale Senior High School, Scarsdale
- Syosset Senior High School, Syosset
- Byram Hills High School, Armonk
- Roslyn High School, Roslyn Heights
- Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua
- Half Hollow Hills High School East, Dix Hills
- Herricks High School, New Hyde Park
- Dobbs Ferry High School, Dobbs Ferry
- Brighton High School, Rochester
- Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham
- Wheatley School, Old Westbury
- Commack High School, Commack
- Westhampton Beach Senior High School, Westhampton Beach
- Harrison High School, Harrison
- Ardsley High School, Ardsley
- Floral Park Memorial High School, Floral Park
- Pittsford Sutherland High School, Pittsford
- Oceanside High School, Oceanside
- Elmont Memorial High School, Elmont
- Harborfields High School, Greenlawn
- South Side High School, Rockville Centre
- Bethpage Senior High School, Bethpage
- Suffern Senior High School, Suffern
- Clarkstown North Senior High School, New City
- Clarkstown South Senior High School, West Nyack
- North Salem Middle/High School, North Salem
- Garden City High School, Garden City
- North Shore Senior High School, Glen Head
- Pittsford-Mendon High School, Pittsford
- Locust Valley High School, Locust Valley
- John Jay High School, Cross River
- Half Hollow Hills High School West, Dix Hills
- Mount Sinai High School, Mount Sinai
- Mamaroneck High School, Mamaroneck
- Skaneateles Senior High School, Skaneateles
- Smithtown High School - Western Campus, Smithtown
- Sanford H. Calhoun High School, Merrick
- Baldwin Senior High School, Baldwin
- Fayetteville-Manlius Senior High School, Manlius
- Tappan Zee High School, Orangeburg
- George W. Hewlett High School, Hewlett
- White Plains Senior High School, White Plains
- Lynbrook Senior High School, Lynbrook
- Southampton High School, Southampton
- Smithtown High School East, Saint James
- John H. Glenn High School, Elwood
- Hastings High School, Hastings On Hudson
- Spackenkill High School, Poughkeepsie
- Northport Senior High School, Northport
- Sleepy Hollow High School, Sleepy Hollow
- Earl L. Vandermeulen High School, Port Jefferson
- Fox Lane High School, Bedford
- Bay Shore Senior High School, Bay Shore
- Walt Whitman High School, Huntington Station
- Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School, Port Washington
- John F. Kennedy High School, Bellmore
- Mattituck Junior/Senior High School, Mattituck
- Williamsville East High School, East Amherst
- H. Frank Carey High School, Franklin Square
- Niskayuna High School, Schenectady
- Croton-Harmon High School, Croton On Hudson
- Victor Senior High School, Victor
- Arlington High School, Lagrangeville
- Penfield Senior High School, Penfield
- Ossining High School, Ossining
- Ballston Spa Senior High School, Ballston Spa
- Bethlehem Central Senior High School, Delmar
- Wellington C. Mepham High School, Bellmore
- Sewanhaka High School, Floral Park
- Massapequa High School, Massapequa
- East Meadow High School, East Meadow
- Ward Melville Senior High School, East Setauket
- Red Hook Senior High School, Red Hook
- Lawrence Senior High School, Cedarhurst
- Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School, Copiague
- Jamesville-Dewitt High School, Dewitt
- Island Trees High School, Levittown
- Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur Senior High School, Levittown
- New Hyde Park Memorial High School, New Hyde Park
- Somers Senior High School, Lincolndale
- Carmel High School, Carmel
- Valley Stream Central High School, Valley Stream
- Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, Plainview
- Woodlands Senior High School, Hartsdale
- Irondequoit High School, Rochester
- New Paltz Senior High School, New Paltz
- Nyack Senior High School, Upper Nyack
- Shoreham-Wading River High School, Shoreham
- Valley Stream South High School, Valley Stream
- Malverne Senior High School, Malverne
- Valley Stream North High School, Franklin Square
- P.S. 195 - City Honors School, Buffalo
- Orchard Park High School, Orchard Park
- Islip High School, Islip
- Hendrick Hudson High School, Montrose
- Yonkers High School, Yonkers
- New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle
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