You've seen The Browning School. What are your child's real college odds? Check any college in 10 seconds — no email needed — then get the free Family Decision Report: Reach / Competitive / Match / Likely + the real cost range for every college on their list. Check odds →

How The Browning School compares for families

What families should know about The Browning School.

  • LocallyNY sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: The Beekman School, The Hewitt School, Ethical Culture Fieldston School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

For Parents

Get alerts when The Browning School's numbers change

New admissions results, enrollment shifts, test scores — a few alerts a year, no spam. Your email also saves your list across devices.

Objective, government-grade data — no school pays us for placement.

Your state's public flagship

Stony Brook University

49%
admit rate
$10,931
in-state tuition/yr · $32,741 out-of-state
1320–1490
SAT 25–75 · ACT 28–33

The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $18,784/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

See the full Stony Brook University profile → Estimate your odds with your scores →

Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Pay for college in New York

New York's public scholarships

New York's Excelsior Scholarship makes SUNY and CUNY tuition-free for middle-income families — there's no GPA or test gate, but you commit to staying in New York after you graduate.

Promise Excelsior Scholarship
Free SUNY/CUNY tuition (last-dollar, up to $5,500/yr)
Income: Household AGI ≤ $125,000

Tuition-free SUNY/CUNY for NY families under $125k AGI — no GPA or test gate, but you must stay on track and live in New York after graduating. (Stay on-track (30 credits/yr); live & work in NY afterward for the years you received it.)

Official program details ↗

Eligibility rules change yearly — confirm with the official program before relying on it. Amounts are recent published figures; awards cover tuition/fees, not housing or books unless noted. Verified 2026-06-14.

Their published matriculation list

Where the Classes of 2022-26 enrolled

The Browning School publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 80 colleges, ordered by the number of students enrolled.

College  ·  Students

University of Pennsylvania 11
Cornell University 6
Emory University 6
Boston College 5
Colgate University 5
University of Miami 5
Columbia University 4
Dartmouth College 4
New York University 4
Boston University 3
Lehigh University 3
Middlebury College 3
Tufts University 3
Tulane University 3
University of Chicago 3
Vanderbilt University 3
Wake Forest University 3
American University 2
Brown University 2
Bucknell University 2
Carnegie Mellon University 2
Case Western Reserve University 2
CUNY - John Jay College 2
Fordham University 2
Georgetown University 2
Hamilton College 2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2
Northeastern University 2
Pennsylvania State University 2
Southern Methodist University 2
and 50 more
SUNY - University at Albany 2
CUNY - Honors College 1
Ecole Hoteliere Lausanne 1
Istituto Europeo di Design 1
New England Conservatory of Music 1
Oxford College 1
Pratt Institute of Technology 1
St. John's University 1
Union College 1
University of St. Andrews 1

These graduates went on to the colleges above.

Check your kid's odds at these colleges →

We'll load the 10 colleges the class chose most often — add your name, email and your child's numbers and we'll see where your child lands at each.

Independently verified As published by The Browning School — College Guidance page — 'Classes of 2022-26 Matriculations' ↗. Found at: page content, 'Classes of 2022-26 Matriculations' section.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 418 in 2020 to 460 in 2022 — over 2 years.
+10.0%
Why only 2 data points?

Private school enrollment comes from the NCES Private School Universe Survey (PSS), which is collected every other year — not annually like public-school data. The most recent published collection is 2021–22; NCES targeted spring 2026 for the 2023–24 release — we'll load it as soon as it's published.

For a more current snapshot, see The Browning School's own published school profile (as of 2024-25): www.browning.edu/admission/school-profile ↗

Most similar nearby high schools

The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
The Beekman School
New York
Private 0.7 57
The Hewitt School
New York
Private 0.7 464 -11.6%
Ethical Culture Fieldston School
New York
Private 0.7 1,658 +315.5%
Children'S Academy
New York
Private 0.7 59
The Birch Wathen Lenox School
New York
Private 0.8 404 -28.5%
Rudolf Steiner School
New York
Private 0.9 244 -12.2%
Fusion Academy Manhattan - Upper West Side
New York
Private 0.9 66 +11.9%
Lycee Francais De New York
New York
Private 1.0 1,091 -15.4%

For Parents

Researching colleges for your kid at The Browning School?

Check any college's odds in 10 seconds — no email needed — then get the free Family Decision Report: Reach / Competitive / Match / Likely with real admit odds and your real net price, for every college on their list.

Check your child's odds →
What are your child's odds? →

What families ask next