Long Island’s Best Public High Schools: New Rankings Released

Niche.com has released its list of the best public high schools in the nation and New York for 2019.

The top school in the country: Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois. In New York: Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan.

Twenty-nine Long Island high schools made the top 100 list for New York, with four making an appearance in the top 10. Last year, 30 Long Island schools were in the top 100, but only two made the top 10.

• For Niche.com’s rankings for Long Island school districts, go here.

To arrive at these rankings, Niche looked at data from the U.S. Department of Education as well as test scores, college data and ratings collected from Niche users. (You can read more about the methodology here.)

Here are the top 10 public high schools in New York, according to Niche:

1. Stuyvesant High School
2. Staten Island Technical High School
3. Bronx High School of Science
4. Townsend Harris High School
5. Great Neck South High School
6. Jericho Senior High School
7. Scarsdale Senior High School
8. High School Math Science & Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY)
9. Syosset Senior High School
10. Roslyn High School

Check out the full list of Long Island high schools that made the top 100:

• No. 5— Great Neck South High School
• No. 6— Jericho Senior High School
• No. 9— Syosset Senior High School
• No. 10— Roslyn High School
• No. 14— Great Neck North High School
• No. 22— Herricks High School
• No. 23— Manhasset Secondary School
• No. 28— Paul D. Schreiber Senior High School
• No. 33— Half Hollow Hills High School West
• No. 37— Wheatley School
• No. 40— Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School
• No. 44— Harborfields High School
• No. 47— Half Hollow Hills High School East
• No. 52— Garden City High School
• No. 53— Oceanside High School
• No. 54— Sanford H. Calhoun High School
• No. 63— Ward Melville Senior High School
• No. 69— North Shore Senior High School
• No. 79— Westhampton Beach Senior High School
• No. 80— Walt Whitman High School
• No. 81— South Side High School
• No. 83— Smithtown High School - Western Campus
• No. 88— Commack High School
• No. 89— Bethpage Senior High School
• No. 90— East Meadow High School
• No. 95— Locust Valley High School
• No. 96— Wellington C. Mepham High School
• No. 97— Bay Shore Senior High School
• No. 98— Massapequa High School

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