PA High School Athletic Ranks: Harriton High School

BRYN MAWR, PA — Niche.com’s rankings for best high schools for athletes are out, and the results are good for Harriton High School.

The school was ranked the 5th best high school for athletes in Pennsylvania. Other local schools that were ranked well include Harriton's sister school Lower Merion High School which took the top honors as the best school for athletes in PA, Coatesville (4th), Spring-Ford (6th), Conestoga (7th), and Radnor (9th).

Harriton, which offers its students 30 sports to participate in, earned an "A+" grade in sports from Niche.com. See Niche's full report card for Harriton online here.

The ranking takes five factors into account, including a parent/student survey on school sports, the number of sports offered, the participation of girls, and, separately, the participation of boys, and expenses per student. Data is collected from Niche.com users, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Civil Rights Data Collection service.

The number one ranked school in the nation was Illinois’ Adlai E. Stevenson High School.

See the full study here.

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