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

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

Among the 5 private high schools in the Cleveland area with a counted college list, Western Reserve Academy sends the most graduates to the Ivy+ twelve, 9 per class year (9 over 1 class year), followed by Hathaway Brown School (8.2) and University School (8).

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

5 of the 39 private high schools in the Cleveland area publish a college list with counts, 4 publish a list without counts, and 30 publish no list we have read.

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

1 of the 39 private high schools in the Cleveland area is listed as boarding schools by the TABS member directory: Western Reserve Academy.

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

On the federal Private School Survey, 14 of the 39 private high schools in the Cleveland area are Catholic, 14 have another religious affiliation and 11 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, 14 of these schools are Catholic, 14 have another religious affiliation and 11 are nonsectarian.
• Residential life. 1 of these schools offers boarding, per the TABS member directory, so living on campus is part of what it offers.
• 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 Cleveland area with a page on Reach (30)

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
Al Ihsan School	Cleveland	1–12	Other religious
Benedictine High School	Cleveland	9–12	Catholic
Chaviva High School	Cleveland Heights	9–12	Other religious
Christian Community School	Grafton	—	Other religious
Christian Life Academy	North Ridgeville	—	Other religious
Cleveland Central Catholic High School	Cleveland	9–12	Catholic
Eleanor Gerson School	Cleveland	6–12	Nonsectarian
First Baptist Christian School	Elyria	—	Other religious
Fuchs Mizrachi School	Beachwood	—	Other religious
Lake Catholic High School	Mentor	9–12	Catholic
Lake Ridge Academy	North Ridgeville	—	Nonsectarian
Lawerence School - Lower	Broadview Heights	1–12	Nonsectarian
Lawrence School-Upper School Campus	Northfield	1–12	Nonsectarian
Lutheran High School East	Cleveland Heights	9–12	Other religious
Lutheran High School West	Rocky River	9–12	Other religious
Magnificat High School	Rocky River	9–12	Catholic
Medina Christian Academy	Medina	—	Other religious
Mentor Christian School	Mentor	—	Other religious
Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin School	Chardon	9–12	Catholic
Our Lady Of The Elms School	Akron	—	Catholic
Re-Education Services	Mentor	1–12	Nonsectarian
St Joseph Academy	Cleveland	9–12	Catholic
St Martin De Porres School	Cleveland	9–12	Catholic
St Vincent-St Mary High School	Akron	9–12	Catholic
Steps Educational Group	Parma	—	Nonsectarian
Telshe High School	Wickliffe	9–12	Other religious
Trinity High School	Garfield Heights	9–12	Catholic
Westside Christian Academy	Westlake	—	Other religious
Yeshiva Derech Hatorah	Cleveland Heights	—	Other religious
Yeshiva High School Of Cleveland	Beachwood	9–12	Other religious

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 30 miles of the metro's center and it is in OH.