The 63 Best Private Schools In New York City: See The 2018 Rankings

NEW YORK, NY — Brace yourselves, tiger moms (and dads) of the cutthroat New York City private school circuit. The results are in for what has come to be pretty much the go-to ranking in non-public K-12 education: Niche.com's annual list of the "Best Private Schools In America."

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To the naked eye, there aren't many huge differences between last year's list and the list for 2018 (below). But through the military-grade kid-prestige goggles of an NYC private school parent, we've got some major upsets on our hands.

The ruthless, take-no-prisoners, $50,000-per-year Dalton School on the Upper East Side, for one, has dropped three whole spots, from No. 3 to No. 6 — placing it, quite devastatingly, in the shadow of Riverdale Country School in the Bronx. Several other Upper East Side favorites — including Ramaz, Marymount and Spence — have also flopped a few spots down.

And on the up-and-up, beating out those latter three, we see the Berkeley Carroll School in Park Slope sliding in at No. 15 — a whopping seven spots higher than last year.

If that's not enough to set off a PTA flame war across the waters of the East River, we don't know what is.

See also: NYC's Best Public High Schools, According To U.S. News And World Report

So perhaps we're instigators, but here goes: Below, we've separated out the Top 63 private schools in NYC from Niche's nationwide list. All are within the state's Top 150, and all earned a Niche grade of A- or higher.

The rankings are "based on rigorous analysis of key statistics and millions of reviews from students and parents," according to Niche. "Ranking factors include SAT/ACT scores, the quality of colleges that students consider, student-teacher ratio, private school ratings, and more." (Still seeing red over your kid's school ranking? You can pick apart Niche's full methodology here. Also feel free, as always, to vent your frustrations in an angry email to simone.wilson@patch.com. That's what we're here for.)

Deep breath:

1. Horace Mann School, The Bronx

2. Trinity School, Upper West Side, Manhattan

3. Collegiate School, Upper West Side, Manhattan

4. Regis High School, Upper East Side, Manhattan

5. Riverdale Country School, The Bronx

6. Dalton School, Upper East Side, Manhattan

7. The Chapin School, Upper East Side, Manhattan

8. Poly Preparatory Country Day School, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn

9. Friends Seminary, Gramercy Park, Manhattan

10. Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn

11. Saint Ann's School, Brooklyn Heights

12. Brearley School, Upper East Side, Manhattan

13. Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School, Upper West Side, Manhattan

14. ECF - Fieldston Middle/Upper School, The Bronx

15. Berkeley Carroll School, Park Slope, Brooklyn

16. Convent of the Sacred Heart, Upper East Side, Manhattan

17. Ramaz School, Upper East Side, Manhattan

18. Dwight School, Upper West Side, Manhattan

19. Nightingale-Bamford School, Upper East Side, Manhattan

20. The Spence School, Upper East Side, Manhattan

21. Brooklyn Friends School, Downtown Brooklyn

22. United Nations International School, Kips Bay, Manhattan

23. Marymount School, Upper East Side, Manhattan

24. Lycée Français de New York, Upper East Side, Manhattan

25. Loyola School, Upper East Side, Manhattan

26. The Hewitt School, Upper East Side, Manhattan

27. Dominican Academy, Upper East Side, Manhattan

28. Heschel High School, Upper West Side, Manhattan

29. The Browning School, Upper East Side, Manhattan

30. Staten Island Academy, Staten Island

31. The Calhoun School, Upper West Side, Manhattan

32. Fordham Preparatory School, The Bronx

33. Trevor Day School, Upper West Side, Manhattan

34. Grace Church School, NoHo, Manhattan

35. Birch Wathen Lenox School, Upper East Side, Manhattan

36. SAR High School, The Bronx

37. York Prep School, Upper West Side, Manhattan

38. The Kew-Forest School, Forest Hills, Queens

39. Professional Children's School, Upper West Side, Manhattan

40. Xavier High School, Chelsea, Manhattan

41. Yeshivah of Flatbush - Joel Braverman High School, Midwood/Flatbush, Brooklyn

42. Leman Manhattan Preparatory School, Financial District, Manhattan

43. Manhattan High School for Girls, Upper East Side, Manhattan

44. Garden School, Jackson Heights, Queens

45. Xaverian High School, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

46. Yeshiva University High School for Boys, Washington Heights, Manhattan

47. Razi School, Woodside, Queens

48. Notre Dame School, West Village, Manhattan

49. The Mary Louis Academy, Jamaica, Queens

50. Robert Louis Stevenson School, Upper West Side, Manhattan

51. The Beekman School, Midtown Manhattan

52. Brooklyn Amity School, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn

53. Fontbonne Hall Academy, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn

54. The Windsor School, Flushing, Queens

55. St. Agnes Academic School, College Point, Queens

56. St. Joseph Hill Academy, Staten Island

57. St. Saviour High School, Park Slope, Brooklyn

58. The Smith School, Upper West Side, Manhattan

59. St. Vincent Ferrer High School, Upper East Side, Manhattan

60. St. Francis Preparatory School, Fresh Meadows, Queens

61. Bay Ridge Prep, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

62. Notre Dame Academy High School, Staten Island

63. Evangel Christian School, Long Island City, Queens

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