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

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

Among the 17 private high schools in the Philadelphia area with a counted college list, Germantown Friends School sends the most graduates to the Ivy+ twelve, 21.3 per class year (64 over 3 class years), followed by The Haverford School (13) and Springside Chestnut Hill Academy (9).

Private high schools in the Philadelphia area that publish a counted acceptances list

An acceptances list counts every college that admitted a graduate, so one student admitted to three of the twelve counts three times. It is a different document from a matriculation list and is never added to the table above.

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

17 of the 161 private high schools in the Philadelphia area publish a college list with counts, 18 publish a list without counts, and 126 publish no list we have read.

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

2 of the 161 private high schools in the Philadelphia area are listed as boarding schools by the TABS member directory: George School and Westtown School.

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

On the federal Private School Survey, 38 of the 161 private high schools in the Philadelphia area are Catholic, 55 have another religious affiliation and 68 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, 38 of these schools are Catholic, 55 have another religious affiliation and 68 are nonsectarian.
• Residential life. 2 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 Philadelphia area with a page on Reach (126)

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
63Rd St Multicultural Acad Of Academic Excellence	Philadelphia	—	Other religious
Academy Of The New Church Boys School	Bryn Athyn	9–12	Other religious
Aim Academy	Conshohocken	1–12	Nonsectarian
Al-Aqsa Islamic School	Philadelphia	—	Other religious
Anthony Wayne Academy	Philadelphia	6–12	Nonsectarian
Archbishop John Carroll High School	Radnor	9–12	Catholic
Archbishop Ryan High School	Philadelphia	9–12	Catholic
Archbishop Wood High School	Warminster	9–12	Catholic
Bethany Baptist Christian School	Deptford	2–12	Other religious
Bethel Baptist Academy	Philadelphia	—	Other religious
Bishop Shanahan High School	Downingtown	9–12	Catholic
Brookfield Academy	Cherry Hill	1–12	Nonsectarian
Bucks Learning Academy	Warrington	8–12	Nonsectarian
Calvary Baptist School	Lansdale	—	Other religious
Carson Valley Childrens Aid	Flourtown	8–12	Nonsectarian
Center For Education	Marlton	8–12	Nonsectarian
Community Service Foundation	Sellersville	8–12	Nonsectarian
Concord Christian Academy	Wilmington	—	Other religious
Conwell Egan Catholic High School	Fairless Hills	9–12	Catholic
Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School	Philadelphia	9–12	Catholic
Davidson School	Elwyn	—	Nonsectarian
Delaware County Christian School	Newtown Square	—	Other religious
Delaware Valley Friends School	Paoli	1–12	Other religious
Delaware Valley School For Exceptional Children	Hamilton	6–12	Nonsectarian
Devereux Mapleton School	Malvern	5–12	Nonsectarian
Devon Preparatory School	Devon	6–12	Catholic
Dock Mennonite Academy	Lansdale	—	Other religious
Faith Baptist Christian Academy	Fairless Hills	—	Other religious
Faith Christain Academy Lower	Quakertown	—	Other religious
Faith Connection Christian Academy	Philadelphia	—	Other religious
Faith Tabernacle School	Philadelphia	1–12	Other religious
Father Judge High School	Philadelphia	9–12	Catholic
Foxman Torah Institute	Cherry Hill	9–12	Other religious
Fusion Academy	Cherry Hill	7–12	Nonsectarian
Fusion Academy - Ardmore	Ardmore	6–12	Nonsectarian
Fusion Malvern	Malvern	6–12	Nonsectarian
Garfield Park Academy	Willingboro	—	Nonsectarian
Gloucester County Christian School	Sewell	—	Other religious
Greater Hope Christian Academy	Philadelphia	—	Other religious
Green Tree School	Philadelphia	K–12	Nonsectarian
Hampton Academy	Lumberton	2–12	Nonsectarian
Harbor Baptist Academy	Hainesport	—	Other religious
Harvest Christain Academy, Wilmington	Wilmington	—	Other religious
High Road School Of Delaware	Wilmington	3–12	Nonsectarian
Hill Top Preparatory School	Bryn Mawr	5–12	Nonsectarian
Hollydell School	Sewell	—	Nonsectarian
Holy Cross Preparatory Academy	Delran	9–12	Catholic
Holy Ghost Prep	Bensalem	9–12	Catholic
Hyman Korman High School-Talmudical Yeshiva Of Phi	Philadelphia	9–12	Other religious
I S Kosloff Torah Academy High School For Girls	Bala Cynwyd	9–12	Other religious
International Christian High School	Philadelphia	9–12	Other religious
Jdt Christian Academy	Pennsauken	—	Other religious
Keystone Freedom Academy	Warminster	6–12	Nonsectarian
Kimberton Waldorf School	Kimberton	—	Nonsectarian
Kingsway Learning Center	Voorhees	1–12	Nonsectarian
Kohelet Yeshiva High School	Merion Station	9–12	Other religious
Lakeside Girls Academy	North Wales	—	Nonsectarian
Lansdale Catholic High School	Lansdale	9–12	Catholic
Larc School	Bellmawr	—	Nonsectarian
Legacy Treatment Services, Mary A. Dobbins School	Mount Holly	6–12	Nonsectarian
Liberty Baptist Academy	Glenolden	—	Other religious
Life Center Academy	Burlington	—	Other religious
Lifeworks Academy	Doylestown	2–12	Nonsectarian
Liguori Academy	Philadelphia	9–12	Nonsectarian
Little Flower Catholic High School For Girls	Philadelphia	9–12	Catholic
Little Footsteps Islam Ins Lfs	Philadelphia	—	Other religious
Martin Saints Classical High School	Oreland	9–12	Catholic
Meadow View Junior Academy	Chesterfield	—	Other religious
Merakey Education And Autism Warrington	Warrington	5–12	Nonsectarian
Mercy Career & Technical High School	Philadelphia	9–12	Catholic
Mesivta Yesodei Yisroel	Elkins Park	9–12	Other religious
Milagre Kids School	Swarthmore	9–12	Nonsectarian
Milagre Kids School	Pennsburg	4–12	Nonsectarian
Milestone Academy	Jenkintown	10–12	Nonsectarian
Monsignor Bonner & Archbishop Prendergast Hs	Drexel Hill	9–12	Catholic
Mount St Joseph Academy	Flourtown	9–12	Catholic
New Hope Academy	Doylestown	8–12	Nonsectarian
New Medina Learning Institute	Philadelphia	—	Other religious
Orchard Friends School	Riverton	3–12	Nonsectarian
Our Lady Of Mercy Academy	Newfield	9–12	Catholic
Padua Academy	Wilmington	9–12	Catholic
Paul Vi High School	Haddonfield	9–12	Catholic
Pennsylvania School For The Deaf	Philadelphia	—	Nonsectarian
Phil-Mont Christian Academy	Erdenheim	—	Other religious
Phila Yeshiva	Philadelphia	9–12	Other religious
Philadelphia Free School	Philadelphia	—	Nonsectarian
Plumstead Christian School	Plumsteadville	—	Other religious
Pope John Paul Ii High School	Royersford	9–12	Catholic
Quadrat Academy	Philadelphia	6–12	Nonsectarian
Regina Luminis Academy	Berwyn	—	Catholic
Royer-Greaves School For Blind	Paoli	2–12	Nonsectarian
School Of Faith In God	Spring City	6–12	Other religious
Sophia Academy	Philadelphia	9–12	Other religious
Souderton Vantage Academy	North Wales	5–12	Nonsectarian
St Elizabeth School	Wilmington	—	Catholic
St Joseph High School	Hammonton	9–12	Catholic
St Joseph'S Preparatory School	Philadelphia	9–12	Catholic
St Katharine Drexel School	Bensalem	6–12	Nonsectarian
St Katherine Day School -Upper	Wynnewood	—	Catholic
Strang School/Ranch Hope	Alloway	7–12	Nonsectarian
Talmudical Yeshiva Of Philadelphia	Philadelphia	9–12	Other religious
The Academy Of The New Church Girls' School	Bryn Athyn	9–12	Other religious
The Bridge	Philadelphia	9–12	Nonsectarian
The Bridge Way School	Philadelphia	9–12	Nonsectarian
The City School	Philadelphia	—	Other religious
The Concept School	Westtown	8–12	Nonsectarian
The Durand School	Woodbury	—	Nonsectarian
The Grayson School	Radnor	—	Nonsectarian
The Kings Christian School	Cherry Hill	—	Other religious
The Mesivta High School Of Greater Phila	Bala Cynwyd	9–12	Other religious
The Pathway School	Norristown	2–12	Nonsectarian
The Timothy School	Berwyn	—	Nonsectarian
The Titusville Academy	Titusville	3–12	Nonsectarian
Tlc Leadership Academy	Audubon	8–12	Nonsectarian
Trenton Catholic Preparatory Academy-Upper	Hamilton	9–12	Catholic
Trinity Preparatory School Inc.	Voorhees	—	Other religious
Urban Promise Academy	Camden	9–12	Other religious
Valley Day School	Morrisville	1–12	Nonsectarian
Valley Forge Baptist Academy	Collegeville	—	Other religious
Villa Victoria Academy	Ewing	6–12	Catholic
Villa Victoria Lower School	Trenton	6–12	Catholic
Vocatio Career Prep High School	Philadelphia	9–12	Other religious
West Catholic Preparatory H.S.	Philadelphia	9–12	Catholic
Woods Services	Langhorne	1–12	Nonsectarian
Wyncote Academy	Melrose Park	6–12	Nonsectarian
Y.A.L.E. School Of Philadelphia	Philadelphia	1–12	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 30 miles of the metro's center and it is in PA, NJ, DE.