High school | Success Rate | Tuition($) | Class Size | |
Saint Ann’s School | 41% | 20,500 | 74 | |
Winsor School | 39% | 23,800 | 57 | |
Trinity School | 37% | 23,475 | 120 | |
Horace Mann School | 35% | 24,500 | 175 | |
Philips Academy | 30% | 23,400 | 300 | |
Deerfield Academy | 30% | 23,005 | 199 | |
Nat’l Cathedral School | 30% | 21,850 | 73 | |
Dalton School | 30% | 24,680 | 103 | |
Hunter College High School | 28% | 0 | Public | 186 |
St. Paul’s School | 28% | 31,125 | 144 | |
St. Albans School | 27% | 21,837 | 81 | |
Germantown Friends School | 26% | 16,675 | 88 | |
Episcopal Academy | 26% | 18,800 | 104 | |
Lakeside School | 25% | 18,400 | 111 | |
Sidwell Friends School | 25% | 20,975 | 116 | |
Phillips Exeter Academy | 25% | 22,800 | 322 | |
Hopkins School | 24% | 21,550 | 123 | |
Pingry School | 24% | 22,290 | 132 | |
Milton Academy | 24% | 24,325 | 170 | |
Choate Rosemary Hall | 24% | 22,940 | 224 | |
Univ. of Chicago Lab. Schools | 23% | 16,125 | 112 | |
Hotchkiss School | 23% | 25,450 | 148 | |
Nobel and Greenough School | 23% | 24,150 | 102 | |
Harvard-Westlake School | 22% | 20,000 | 268 | |
Delbarton School | 22% | 19,600 | 118 | |
Durham Academy | 22% | 14,600 | 97 | |
Head-Royce School | 21% | 20,360 | 94 | |
Lawrenceville School | 21% | 24,610 | 221 | |
Buckingham Browne&Nichols | 21% | 24,600 | 113 | |
Geoggetown Day School | 21% | 21,472 | 110 | |
Fieldston | 20% | 23,900 | 127 | |
T. Jefferson H.S. for Sci & Tech, Alexandria, VA | 18% | 0 | Public | 401 |
Taft School | 18% | 22,500 | 154 | |
Ransom Everglades School | 17% | 18,000 | 138 | |
Stuyvesant High School | 17% | 0 | Public | 719 |
Ithaca high School | 15% | 0 | Public | 336 |
Scardale High School | 15% | 0 | Public | 278 |
Roslyn High Schol | 15% | 0 | Public | 204 |
Horace Greeley High School | 15% | 0 | Public | 279 |
Westminster Schools | 14% | 14,392 | 175 | |
Pine Crest School | 13% | 15,350 | 183 | |
Milburn High School | 13% | 0 | Public | 245 |
Illinois Math and Sci.Academy | 11% | 0 | Public | 189 |
Boston Latin School | 9% | 0 | Public | 337 |
Princeton High School | 9% | 0 | Public | 260 |
N.C.School of Sci. and Math | 9% | 0 | Public | 257 |
Great Neck South High School | 9% | 0 | Public | 268 |
Walt Whitman High School | 9% | 0 | Public | 467 |
Bronx High School of Sci. | 8% | 0 | Public | 604 |
Staples High School | 7% | 0 | Public | 271 |
Paul D. Schreiber High School | 7% | 0 | Public | 290 |
Punahou School | 7% | 12,500 | 421 | |
Northfield Mt. Hermon School | 7% | 22,600 | 318 | |
Richard Montgomery H.S. | 7% | 0 | Public | 363 |
Palo Alto High School | 7% | 0 | Public | 313 |
Lower Merion High School | 7% | 0 | Public | 348 |
Lexington High School | 7% | 0 | Public | 396 |
Newton South High School | 6% | 0 | Public | 360 |
Shaker Heights High School | 6% | 0 | Public | 356 |
Ridgewood High School | 6% | 0 | Public | 345 |
Winston Churchill High School Potomac, MD | 6% | 0 | Public | 451 |
Greenwich High School | 5% | 0 | Public | 569 |
Newton North High School | 4% | 0 | Public | 561 |
New Trier Township High School, Winnetka, Ill. | 3% | 0 | Public | 887 |
Evanston Township Hight School, Evanston, Ill. | 3% | 0 | Public | 780 |
HIGH SCHOOL CITY STATE/ COUNTRY SENIOR CLASS SIZE STUDENTS SENT IN 2007 SUCCESS RATE ↑ CURRENT TUITION COMMENT
Collegiate School New York N.Y. 50 13 26.0% 29,100 Just over 600 boys make up the student body from Kindergarten through 12th grade at this small private school.
Brearley School New York N.Y. 51 12 23.5% 31,300 The all-girls school says on its Web site that it sent a total of 93 kids to the Ivy League in the last five years.
Chapin School New York N.Y. 58 13 22.4% 29,100 Kindergartners at this all-girls school learn creative writing; third-graders study yoga.
University of Chicago Lab Schools Chicago Ill. 113 22 19.5% 20,445 College counseling office recently hired a former University of Chicago admissions officer.
Polytechnic School Pasadena Calif. 87 17 19.5% 23,750 School sent 9 kids to Stanford last year, more than to any other college.
College Preparatory School Oakland Calif. 86 15 17.4% 26,850 School's director of college counseling worked in the University of Pennsylvania admissions office for eight years.
Trinity School New York N.Y. 116 20 17.2% 30,120 School will celebrate its 300th birthday next year.
Phillips Academy Andover Mass. 327 52 15.9% 29,000* School says that about 10% of its students are from outside the U.S. and 35% are students of color.
Delbarton School Morristown N.J. 116 18 15.5% 23,600 Independent school for boys is led by an order of Benedictine monks; about 30% of students are non-Catholic.
Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter N.H. 317 47 14.8% 28,200* This year Exeter announced it will waive tuition for students whose family income is under $75,000.
Milton Academy Milton Mass. 184
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