| # |
School |
City, state |
Students per class year |
Class year |
Source |
| 1 |
Loyola High School |
Los Angeles, CA |
4.8 24 over 5 class years |
2020-24 |
School's published list |
| 2 |
Sage Hill School |
Newport Coast, CA |
4.0 12 over 3 class years |
2023-2025 |
School's published list |
| 3 |
Valley Christian High School |
San Jose, CA |
4.0 8 over 2 class years |
Class of 2024 & 2025 |
School's published list |
| 4 |
Saint Francis Catholic High School |
Sacramento, CA |
4.0 4 over 1 class year |
Class of 2025 |
School's published list |
| 5 |
Marin Academy |
San Rafael, CA |
3.3 10 over 3 class years |
CLASSES OF 2023–2025 |
School's published list |
| 6 |
The Harker School |
San Jose, CA |
3.0 9 over 3 class years |
Classes of 2023, 2024 & 2025 |
School's published list |
| 7 |
Harvard-Westlake School |
Studio City, CA |
3.0 3 over 1 class year |
BY THE CLASSES OF 2021-2025 |
School's published list |
| 8 |
Palma High School |
Salinas, CA |
3.0 3 over 1 class year |
Class of 2025 |
School's published list |
| 9 |
Santa Margarita Catholic High School |
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA |
3.0 3 over 1 class year |
Class of 2025 |
School's published list |
| 10 |
Stevenson School |
Pebble Beach, CA |
3.0 3 over 1 class year |
Class of 2025 |
School's published list |
| 11 |
Crossroads School |
Santa Monica, CA |
2.7 8 over 3 class years |
classes of 2023-25 |
School's published list |
| 12 |
Francis Parker School |
San Diego, CA |
2.5 10 over 4 class years |
2022-2025 |
School's published list |
| 13 |
Branson School |
Ross, CA |
2.3 7 over 3 class years |
Branson Classes of 2024-2026 |
School's published list |
| 14 |
Bentley School |
Lafayette, CA |
2.2 9 over 4 class years |
College Matriculations 2022–2025 |
School's published list |
| 15 |
Berkeley Preparatory School |
Tampa, FL |
2.0 2 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 16 |
Cardinal Newman High School |
Santa Rosa, CA |
2.0 2 over 1 class year |
Class of 2025 |
School's published list |
| 17 |
Saint Joseph-Notre Dame High School |
Alameda, CA |
2.0 2 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 18 |
St. Margaret's Episcopal School |
San Juan Capistrano, CA |
2.0 2 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 19 |
Staten Island Academy |
Staten Island, NY |
2.0 2 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 20 |
The International School of San Francisco |
San Francisco, CA |
2.0 2 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 21 |
College Preparatory School |
Oakland, CA |
1.4 7 over 5 class years |
the last five years |
School's published list |
| 22 |
Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy |
La Canada, CA |
1.3 4 over 3 class years |
Past 3 Years |
School's published list |
| 23 |
Menlo School |
Atherton, CA |
1.3 4 over 3 class years |
Classes of 2023-2025 |
School's published list |
| 24 |
San Francisco University High School |
San Francisco, CA |
1.2 6 over 5 class years |
2021-2025 |
School's published list |
| 25 |
Lick Wilmerding High School |
San Francisco, CA |
1.2 5 over 4 class years |
past four years |
School's published list |
| 26 |
St. Stephen's Episcopal School (Austin) |
Austin, TX |
1.0 5 over 5 class years |
Classes of 2021-2025 |
School's published list |
| 27 |
The Meadows School |
Las Vegas, NV |
1.0 5 over 5 class years |
Over the past five years (2020 to 2024) |
School's published list |
| 28 |
The Stony Brook School |
Stony Brook, NY |
1.0 5 over 5 class years |
Classes of 2021-2025 |
School's published list |
| 29 |
St. John's School |
Tamuning, GU |
1.0 4 over 4 class years |
Classes of 2018–2022 |
School's published list |
| 30 |
Kent School |
Kent, CT |
1.0 3 over 3 class years |
College Matriculations 2023-2025 |
School's published list |
| 31 |
Academy-Notre Dame de Namur |
Villanova, PA |
1.0 1 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 32 |
Fenwick High School |
Oak Park, IL |
1.0 1 over 1 class year |
Class of 2025 |
School's published list |
| 33 |
Marlborough School |
Los Angeles, CA |
1.0 1 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 34 |
Notre Dame School of Manhattan |
New York, NY |
1.0 1 over 1 class year |
Class of 2025 |
School's published list |
| 35 |
Phillips Academy (Andover) |
Andover, MA |
1.0 1 over 1 class year |
Class of 2024 |
School's published list |
| 36 |
Rowland Hall |
Salt Lake City, UT |
1.0 1 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 37 |
St Francis Episcopal School |
Houston, TX |
1.0 1 over 1 class year |
2022 - 2026 |
School's published list |
| 38 |
The Galloway School |
Atlanta, GA |
1.0 1 over 1 class year |
Class of 2025 |
School's published list |
| 39 |
The Madeira School |
Mclean, VA |
1.0 1 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 40 |
The Pennington School |
Pennington, NJ |
1.0 1 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 41 |
Western Reserve Academy |
Hudson, OH |
1.0 1 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 42 |
Woodside Priory School |
Portola Valley, CA |
1.0 1 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 43 |
Polytechnic School |
Pasadena, CA |
0.8 4 over 5 class years |
Class of 2022-2026 |
School's published list |
| 44 |
Francis W. Parker School |
Chicago, IL |
0.8 3 over 4 class years |
Classes of 2022-2025 |
School's published list |
| 45 |
The Bush School |
Seattle, WA |
0.7 4 over 6 class years |
2020-2025 |
School's published list |
| 46 |
La Jolla Country Day School |
La Jolla, CA |
0.7 2 over 3 class years |
2023-2025 |
School's published list |
| 47 |
Westridge School |
Pasadena, CA |
0.7 2 over 3 class years |
2021-2023 |
School's published list |
| 48 |
Beaver Country Day School |
Chestnut Hill, MA |
0.6 3 over 5 class years |
Five Year Summary 2022-2026 |
School's published list |
| 49 |
Charles Wright Academy |
Tacoma, WA |
0.6 3 over 5 class years |
Class of 2021-2025 |
School's published list |
| 50 |
Ethical Culture Fieldston School |
New York, NY |
0.6 3 over 5 class years |
Classes of 2022–2026 |
School's published list |
The 50 largest of 101 ranked private schools.
Also published, with a total but no class-year window we can read, so not ranked:
Pierrepont School (2), The Lovett School (1).
All schools, public and private, and the lists of colleges that admitted each school's graduates, are on the University of California-Santa Barbara feeder leaderboard. More about the college: University of California-Santa Barbara.
Each count is copied from a list the school published about its own graduates: where they enrolled, one student at one college. The ranked figure is that count divided by the class years the school's list covers. A school that is not on this page did not publish a numbered matriculation list we could read — that is all absence means here. It is never a statement about a school's graduates. Lists of acceptances (where students were admitted, not where they enrolled) are never counted in this ranking: an acceptances list runs about three times an enrollment list, so counting the two together would compare different things. Those lists are ranked on their own, separately.