Best private high schools in the Baltimore area, ranked by published college outcomes

Which private high schools in the Baltimore area have the strongest published college outcomes?

Among the 4 private high schools in the Baltimore area with a counted college list, McDonogh School sends the most graduates to the Ivy+ twelve, 15 per class year (15 over 1 class year), followed by Gilman School (12) and The Bryn Mawr School (7).

How many private high schools in the Baltimore area publish a college list?

4 of the 76 private high schools in the Baltimore area publish a college list with counts, 13 publish a list without counts, and 59 publish no list we have read.

Which private high schools in the Baltimore area are boarding schools?

3 of the 76 private high schools in the Baltimore area are listed as boarding schools by the TABS member directory: Boys Latin School Of Maryland, Oldfields School, and St Timothy'S School.

Which private high schools in the Baltimore area are religiously affiliated?

On the federal Private School Survey, 16 of the 76 private high schools in the Baltimore area are Catholic, 28 have another religious affiliation and 32 are nonsectarian.

What families are also choosing at a private school

Parents are not only shopping for college outcomes. The tables above count where graduates enrolled, and a high school is also four years of a teenager's days: who they spend them with, what the school asks them to value, and whether the adults know them.

• Community and values fit. A private school sets its own mission and expectations, and the application, the entrance exam and the interview work as a fit signal in both directions. On the federal Private School Survey, 16 of these schools are Catholic, 28 have another religious affiliation and 32 are nonsectarian.
• Residential life. 3 of these schools offer boarding, per the TABS member directory, so living on campus is part of what they offer.
• Class size. Class size is a fair question for each school's admissions office; we hold no student–teacher ratio for the schools listed here.
• Advising. Each private school builds its own college-advising model, so the useful question is how many students each counselor carries and how early the work starts.
• Arts and athletics access. A smaller school can mean more students on each team and in each production; ask each school what participation looks like.

Public schools are a great choice when a family cannot afford a private school, and a published college list is one of the few outcome measures a private school and a public school can be read on side by side.

Every other private high school in the Baltimore area with a page on Reach (59)

Listed alphabetically. These schools publish no college list we have read; that is all their absence from the tables above means.

School	City	Grades	Affiliation
Aami Bible Institute	Elkridge	9–12	Other religious
Al-Huda School	College Park	—	Other religious
Annapolis Area Christian School	Severn	—	Other religious
Archbishop Curley High School	Baltimore	9–12	Catholic
Arlington Baptist School	Baltimore	—	Other religious
Arts & Ideas Sudbury School	Baltimore	—	Other religious
Arundel Christian School	Hanover	—	Other religious
Baltimore Lab School	Baltimore	1–12	Nonsectarian
Baltimore School Of Independent Learners	Owings Mills	3–12	Nonsectarian
Baltimore Torah School	Baltimore	9–12	Other religious
Belair Baptist Christian Academy	Bowie	—	Other religious
Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School	Baltimore	—	Other religious
Calvary Baptist Church Academy	Glen Burnie	—	Other religious
Calvert Hall College High School	Baltimore	9–12	Catholic
Chapelgate Christian Academy	Marriottsville	—	Other religious
Chimes School The	Baltimore	3–12	Nonsectarian
Concordia Preparatory School	Towson	6–12	Other religious
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School	Baltimore	9–12	Catholic
Emmorton Baptist Academy	Bel Air	—	Other religious
Fusion Columbia	Columbia	7–12	Nonsectarian
Glenwood Academy	Glenwood	3–12	Nonsectarian
Grace Classical Academy	Bel Air	—	Other religious
Greater Grace Christian Academy	Baltimore	—	Other religious
Harbour School At Baltimore	Owings Mills	2–12	Nonsectarian
High Road School Of Anne Arundel County	Millersville	1–12	Nonsectarian
Indian Creek School	Crownsville	—	Nonsectarian
Israel Henry Beren High School	Baltimore	9–12	Other religious
John Carroll School	Bel Air	9–12	Catholic
Linwood School	Ellicott City	1–12	Nonsectarian
Maryland International School	Elkridge	1–12	Nonsectarian
Mercy High School	Baltimore	9–12	Catholic
Mesivta Kesser Torah Of Baltimore	Pikesville	9–12	Other religious
Mount Clare Christian School	Baltimore	2–12	Other religious
Mount De Sales Academy	Baltimore	9–12	Catholic
Mount Saint Joseph High School	Baltimore	9–12	Catholic
New Directions Academy	Parkville	8–12	Nonsectarian
Notre Dame Preparatory School	Towson	6–12	Catholic
Odenton Christian School	Odenton	—	Other religious
One School Global-Chesapeake Campus	Joppa	3–12	Nonsectarian
Open Bible Christian Academy	Kingsville	—	Other religious
Our Lady Of Mt Carmel School	Essex	—	Catholic
Pathways School--Anne Arundel	Annapolis	7–12	Nonsectarian
Perry Hall Christian School	Perry Hall	—	Other religious
Phillips School - Laurel	Laurel	4–12	Nonsectarian
Rockbridge Academy	Crownsville	—	Other religious
Sheppard Pratt School	Hunt Valley	2–12	Nonsectarian
Spencerville Adventist Academy	Spencerville	—	Other religious
St Elizabeth School	Baltimore	3–12	Nonsectarian
St Frances Academy	Baltimore	9–12	Catholic
St Marys High School	Annapolis	9–12	Catholic
St Vincent Pallotti High School	Laurel	9–12	Catholic
Talmudical Academy-Baltimore	Baltimore	—	Other religious
The Arrow Center For Education	Baltimore	4–12	Nonsectarian
The Baltimore Academy	Baltimore	7–12	Nonsectarian
The Catholic High School Of Baltimore	Baltimore	9–12	Catholic
The Community School	Baltimore	9–12	Nonsectarian
The Harbour School At Annapolis	Annapolis	1–12	Nonsectarian
The Highlands School	Bel Air	1–12	Nonsectarian
The Maryland School For The Blind	Baltimore	—	Nonsectarian

Other metros are on the private high schools by metro index. The same arithmetic across every state is the Ivy+ enrollment board; for one college at a time, see which private schools send the most students to each college.

Ivy+ means these twelve: Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University in the City of New York, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, Duke University. A graduate is counted once, at the college the school says they enrolled at; the per-class-year figure is the published total divided by the class years the school's own document covers, and both are shown. 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. Grades and religious affiliation are from the National Center for Education Statistics' Private School Survey. Boarding is read from the TABS member directory — The Association of Boarding Schools' 2026 list of its US member schools — matched onto our school pages by exact or town-confirmed name (173 of them). A school that directory does not list is not called a boarding school on a guess, so it waits for the next directory pass rather than appearing here. A school is listed here when its NCES coordinates fall within 25 miles of the metro's center and it is in MD.