New York City's Best High Schools: U.S. News And World Report Rankings For 2017

NEW YORK, NY — It's that time of year again! That time when, just as the students of the NYC Schools system begin to feel summer's heat wiggle up from the asphalt and smell the first whiffs of freedom on the air, their helicopter parents have already begun obsessing over the following school year — wait lists, AP classes, extracurricular signups and, inevitably, school rankings.

Enter U.S. News and World Report, school ranker extraordinaire. Right on time to either puff or shatter a parent's seasonal pride with its annual master list of the nation's best public high schools and charter schools, based mostly on their state testing scores and college-prep prowess.

The rankings "include data on more than 22,000 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 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 76 public high schools (including charter schools) and labeled them by neighborhood.

All 76 schools on the list fall within New York State's top 265.

You'll notice some changes in the "golds" from last year. Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene dropped from No. 3 to No. 11, for example, and NYC Museum School in Chelsea shot way up from No. 37 to No. 17.

Take a deep breath. Full rankings below.

GOLD

1. High School of American Studies at Lehman College, The Bronx (No. 17 nationally)

2. Manhattan Bridges High School, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan (No. 25 nationally)

3. The High School for Math, Science and Engineering at CCNY, Harlem, Manhattan (No. 26 nationally)

4. KIPP Academy Charter School, The Bronx (No. 29 nationally)

5. Staten Island Technical High School, Staten Island (No. 35 nationally)

6. High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies, Lower East Side, Manhattan (No. 38 nationally)

7. Townsend Harris High School, Flushing, Queens (No. 44 nationally)

8. Queens High School for the Sciences at York College, Jamaica, Queens (No. 45 nationally)

9. Bronx High School of Science, The Bronx (No. 46 nationally)

10. New Explorations Into Science, Tech and Math High School, Lower East Side, Manhattan (No. 61 nationally)

11. Brooklyn Technical High School, Fort Greene, Brooklyn (No. 68 nationally)

12. Stuyvesant High School, Tribeca, Manhattan (No. 71 nationally)

13. Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Upper East Side, Manhattan (No. 120 nationally)

14. Columbia Secondary School, Harlem, Manhattan (No. 136 nationally)

15. Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, Upper West Side, Manhattan (No. 182 nationally)

16. Scholars' Academy, Rockaway Park, Queens (No. 355 nationally)

17. NYC Museum School, Chelsea, Manhattan (No. 499 nationally)

SILVER

18. Millennium High School, Financial District, Manhattan

19. Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences, Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn

20. Academy of American Studies, Long Island City, Queens

21. Manhattan Village Academy, Flatiron District, Manhattan

22. Baruch College Campus High School, Kips Bay, Manhattan

23. NYC Lab High School for Collaborative Studies, Chelsea, Manhattan

24. Medgar Evers College Preparatory School, Crown Heights, Brooklyn

25. NYC iSchool, Tribeca, Manhattan

26. Bayside High School, Bayside, Queens

27. Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, East Harlem, Manhattan

28. Francis Lewis High School, Fresh Meadows, Queens

29. Bronx Lighthouse Charter School, The Bronx

30. Midwood High School, Midwood, Brooklyn

31. All City Leadership Secondary School, Bushwick, Brooklyn

32. Beacon High School, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

33. Academy of Finance and Enterprise, Long Island City, Queens

34. Park East High School, East Harlem, Manhattan

35. Queens Gateway to Health Sciences Secondary School, Jamaica, Queens

36. Young Women's Leadership School, East Harlem, Manhattan

37. East-West School of International Studies, Flushing, Queens

38. Forest Hills High School, Forest Hills, Queens

39. Central Park East High School, East Harlem, Manhattan

40. Art and Design High School, Midtown East, Manhattan

41. Academy for Careers In Television and Film, Long Island City, Queens

42. Marble Hill High School of International Studies, The Bronx

43. Science, Tech and Research High School at Erasmus, Flatbush, Brooklyn

44. Young Women's Leadership School of Brooklyn, East Williamsburg, Brooklyn

45. Bedford Academy High School, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

46. Millennium Brooklyn High School, Park Slope, Brooklyn

47. Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, The Bronx

48. School of the Future High School, Gramercy, Manhattan

49. High School for Health Professions and Human Service, Gramercy, Manhattan

50. Maspeth High School, Elmhurst, Queens

51. Urban Assembly School for Criminal Justice, Borough Park, Brooklyn

52. Robert F. Kennedy Community High School, Flushing, Queens

53. Williamsburg Preparatory School, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

54. The Cinema School, The Bronx

55. Talent Unlimited High School, Upper East Side, Manhattan

56. Fort Hamilton High School, Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn

57. Aviation Career and Technical High School, Long Island City, Queens

58. The Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music, The Bronx

BRONZE

59. Jamaica Gateway to The Sciences, Jamaica, Queens

60. High School for Public Service-Heroes of Tomorrow, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn

61. Mott Hall V, The Bronx

62. Urban Assembly Academy of Government and Law, Lower East Side, Mahattan

63. Thomas A Edison Career and Technical High School, Jamaica, Queens

64. In-Tech Academy (Middle School/High School 368), The Bronx

65. Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School, SoHo, Manhattan

66. PACE High School, Chinatown, Manhattan

67. Channel View School for Research, Rockaway Park, Queens

68. Essex Street Academy, Lower East Side, Manhattan

69. High School of Hospitality Management, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan

70. Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice, The Bronx

71. High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture, Ozone Park, Queens

72. Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science, The Bronx

73. University Heights Secondary School-Bronx Community, The Bronx

74. Hostos-Lincoln Academy of Science, The Bronx

75. Information Technology High School, Long Island City, Queens

76. Excelsior Preparatory High School, Springfield Gardens, Queens