Private schools

Best private high schools, by metro

One page per metro, California first. Each lists every private high school there with a page on Reach, ranked by its 2025 UC Reach Score (UC admits per 100 seniors, counted at each campus), next to its tuition, entrance exam, application deadline and, where the school publishes one, its college list.

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Metro Private high schools With a UC Reach Score With a counted college list Highest UC Reach Score
Orange County 35 16 5 Pacific Academy Irvine (161)
Los Angeles County 133 83 16 The Webb Schools (144)
Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge 16 7 2 Westridge School for Girls (104)
San Diego County 36 17 5 The Bishop's School (68)
San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley 39 23 7 BASIS Independent Silicon Valley (194)
San Francisco 21 13 5 Immaculate Conception Academy (66)
Marin County 6 4 2 San Domenico School (64)
East Bay 28 20 8 BASIS Independent Fremont Upper School (212)
Sacramento region 15 9 3 Sacramento Country Day School (93)
Inland Empire 29 13 0 Saint Jeanne De Lestonnac C High School (75)
Ventura and Santa Barbara counties 19 8 5 Laguna Blanca School (63)
California boarding schools 17 14 8 The Webb Schools (144)

Tuition and entrance exams, California

California private high school tuition, ranked: every school that publishes it, with UC Reach Score and class size beside the figure, plus metro and tuition-band medians. Entrance exams by metro, from each school's own admissions page: Orange County · Los Angeles County · Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge · San Diego County · San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley · San Francisco · Marin County · East Bay · Sacramento region · Inland Empire · Ventura and Santa Barbara counties · California.

Private high schools in other US metros

Outside California there is no UC Reach Score, so these pages rank the schools that publish a counted college list by graduates enrolling at the Ivy+ twelve per class year, from each school's own list, and list every other private high school in the metro with its grades and affiliation.

Metro Private high schools With a counted college list With an uncounted list Most Ivy+ enrollments per class year
New York City area 336 33 49 Horace Mann School (69.3)
Boston area 95 16 16 Phillips Academy (Andover) (83.0)
Philadelphia area 161 17 18 Germantown Friends School (21.3)
Washington, DC area 129 10 21 Maret School (14.2)
Fairfield County, Connecticut 28 7 2 Brunswick School (37.0)
Baltimore area 76 4 13 McDonogh School (15.0)
Atlanta area 117 7 16 The Westminster Schools (24.6)
South Florida 168 4 18 Pine Crest School (37.6)
Chicago area 116 6 9 University of Chicago Lab School (38.5)
Cleveland area 39 5 4 Western Reserve Academy (9.0)
Dallas-Fort Worth 103 4 17 The Hockaday School (20.7)
Houston area 83 3 14 St. John's School (31.2)
Seattle area 72 6 8 Lakeside School (36.0)

Boarding schools

Boarding per the TABS member directory, ranked the same way: Boarding schools in New England (61 schools, 26 with a counted list); Boarding schools in the United States (179 schools, 64 with a counted list). California's own boarding schools are in the table above.

Ivy+ enrollment by state

The same arithmetic across every state, public and private schools together, one page per state with at least five schools on the board: All high schools · Private schools only · California · Connecticut · Florida · Georgia · Illinois · Maryland · Massachusetts · New Jersey · New York · Ohio · Pennsylvania · Texas · Virginia · Washington.

Looking for every school, public and private, in a county? Use the county index or the California high school rankings. Which private schools send the most students to a given college? See the feeder-school leaderboards.

California metro pages exclude nonclassroom-based online schools and schools the California Department of Education records with no 12th grade. A metro lists the schools in its counties, or in the cities named on the page; Los Angeles County and Pasadena overlap. Source: California Department of Education school directory, University of California Information Center, and each school's own admissions pages.