| # |
School |
City, state |
Students per class year |
Class year |
Source |
| 1 |
Montgomery Bell Academy |
Nashville, TN |
8.4 42 over 5 class years |
2022 – 2026 |
School's published list |
| 2 |
Pine Crest School |
Fort Lauderdale, FL |
7.6 38 over 5 class years |
2022-26 |
School's published list |
| 3 |
St. John's School |
Houston, TX |
6.0 30 over 5 class years |
Over the past five (2022-2026) graduating classes |
School's published list |
| 4 |
Harvard-Westlake School |
Studio City, CA |
6.0 6 over 1 class year |
BY THE CLASSES OF 2021-2025 |
School's published list |
| 5 |
University School of Nashville |
Nashville, TN |
5.8 23 over 4 class years |
2022-2025 |
School's published list |
| 6 |
Bullis School |
Potomac, MD |
5.0 5 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 7 |
Horace Mann School |
Bronx, NY |
4.3 13 over 3 class years |
Class of 2024 - 2026 Graduates |
School's published list |
| 8 |
Pace Academy |
Atlanta, GA |
4.0 4 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 9 |
St. Luke's School (New Canaan) |
New Canaan, CT |
4.0 4 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 / Classes 2021-2025 |
School's published list |
| 10 |
Menlo School |
Atherton, CA |
3.3 10 over 3 class years |
Classes of 2023-2025 |
School's published list |
| 11 |
Ethical Culture Fieldston School |
New York, NY |
3.0 15 over 5 class years |
Classes of 2022–2026 |
School's published list |
| 12 |
Branson School |
Ross, CA |
3.0 9 over 3 class years |
Branson Classes of 2024-2026 |
School's published list |
| 13 |
Avenues the World School |
New York, NY |
3.0 3 over 1 class year |
CLASSES OF 2023–2026 |
School's published list |
| 14 |
Delbarton School |
Morristown, NJ |
3.0 3 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 15 |
St. Margaret's Episcopal School |
San Juan Capistrano, CA |
3.0 3 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 16 |
Packer Collegiate Institute |
Brooklyn, NY |
2.8 14 over 5 class years |
2021 - 2025 |
School's published list |
| 17 |
Riverdale Country School |
Bronx, NY |
2.7 16 over 6 class years |
Higher Ed Enrollment 2021-2026 |
School's published list |
| 18 |
Marin Academy |
San Rafael, CA |
2.7 8 over 3 class years |
CLASSES OF 2023–2025 |
School's published list |
| 19 |
San Francisco University High School |
San Francisco, CA |
2.4 12 over 5 class years |
2021-2025 |
School's published list |
| 20 |
The Westminster Schools |
Atlanta, GA |
2.4 12 over 5 class years |
Classes 2021-2025 |
School's published list |
| 21 |
The Hockaday School |
Dallas, TX |
2.3 7 over 3 class years |
2024 – 2026 |
School's published list |
| 22 |
Francis W. Parker School |
Chicago, IL |
2.2 9 over 4 class years |
Classes of 2022-2025 |
School's published list |
| 23 |
University of Chicago Lab School |
Chicago, IL |
2.2 9 over 4 class years |
In the past four years |
School's published list |
| 24 |
Greenhill School |
Addison, TX |
2.0 8 over 4 class years |
2022 - 2025 |
School's published list |
| 25 |
Holton-Arms School |
Bethesda, MD |
2.0 8 over 4 class years |
College Matriculations 2017-2020 |
School's published list |
| 26 |
Newark Academy |
Livingston, NJ |
2.0 8 over 4 class years |
2023-2026 |
School's published list |
| 27 |
Sage Hill School |
Newport Coast, CA |
2.0 6 over 3 class years |
2023-2025 |
School's published list |
| 28 |
St. Mark's School of Texas |
Dallas, TX |
2.0 6 over 3 class years |
Classes of 2023-2025 |
School's published list |
| 29 |
Blair Academy |
Blairstown, NJ |
2.0 2 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 30 |
Prestonwood Christian Academy |
Plano, TX |
2.0 2 over 1 class year |
Class of 2025 |
School's published list |
| 31 |
Princeton Day School |
Princeton, NJ |
2.0 2 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 32 |
St Ignatius College Prep |
Chicago, IL |
2.0 2 over 1 class year |
CLASS OF 2026 |
School's published list |
| 33 |
The Columbus Academy |
Gahanna, OH |
2.0 2 over 1 class year |
Class of 2026 |
School's published list |
| 34 |
Nightingale-Bamford School |
New York, NY |
1.8 7 over 4 class years |
2022–2025 |
School's published list |
| 35 |
Choate Rosemary Hall |
Wallingford, CT |
1.6 8 over 5 class years |
IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS, (CLASS OF 2022-2026) |
School's published list |
| 36 |
John Burroughs School |
Saint Louis, MO |
1.6 8 over 5 class years |
2021-2025 |
School's published list |
| 37 |
Ransom Everglades School |
Miami, FL |
1.6 8 over 5 class years |
Classes of 2020-24 |
School's published list |
| 38 |
Colorado Academy |
Denver, CO |
1.5 6 over 4 class years |
Classes 2022-2025 |
School's published list |
| 39 |
The Potomac School |
Mclean, VA |
1.5 6 over 4 class years |
past four years |
School's published list |
| 40 |
Durham Academy |
Durham, NC |
1.4 7 over 5 class years |
2021–2025 |
School's published list |
| 41 |
Poly Prep Country Day School |
Brooklyn, NY |
1.4 7 over 5 class years |
Classes of 2022-2026 |
School's published list |
| 42 |
St Andrew'S Episcopal School |
Austin, TX |
1.4 7 over 5 class years |
CLASSES OF 2021-2025 |
School's published list |
| 43 |
St. Stephen's Episcopal School (Austin) |
Austin, TX |
1.4 7 over 5 class years |
Classes of 2021-2025 |
School's published list |
| 44 |
The Lawrenceville School |
Lawrenceville, NJ |
1.4 7 over 5 class years |
the last five years |
School's published list |
| 45 |
Belmont Hill School |
Belmont, MA |
1.2 6 over 5 class years |
2022-2026 |
School's published list |
| 46 |
Gilman School |
Baltimore, MD |
1.2 6 over 5 class years |
classes of 2020-2024 |
School's published list |
| 47 |
Groton School |
Groton, MA |
1.2 6 over 5 class years |
2022–2026 |
School's published list |
| 48 |
Lakeside School |
Seattle, WA |
1.2 6 over 5 class years |
2021-2025 |
School's published list |
| 49 |
Spence School |
New York, NY |
1.2 6 over 5 class years |
Classes of 2021 - 2025 |
School's published list |
| 50 |
The John Cooper School |
The Woodlands, TX |
1.2 6 over 5 class years |
Class of 2022 - 2026 |
School's published list |
The 50 largest of 150 ranked private schools.
Also published, with a total but no class-year window we can read, so not ranked:
St Andrew'S School (10), Garrison Forest School (1).
All schools, public and private, and the lists of colleges that admitted each school's graduates, are on the Vanderbilt University feeder leaderboard. More about the college: Vanderbilt University.
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.