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World's Top 100 Private High Schools

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Rank Private High Schools Country
1 - 5 Brearley School US
1 - 5 Chapin School US
1 - 5 Collegiate School US
1 - 5 St. Anne's School US
1 - 5 Trinity School US
5 - 10 Phillips Academy Andover US
5 - 10 Dalton School US
5 - 10 Roxbury Latin School US
5 - 10 Spence School US
5 - 10 Winsor School US
10 - 20 Ethical Culture Fieldstone School US
10 - 20 Phillips Exeter Academy US
10 - 20 Greenwich Academy US
10 - 20 Groton School US
10 - 20 Lawrenceville School US
10 - 20 Milton Academy US
10 - 20 Polytechnic School US
10 - 20 St. Paul's School US
10 - 20 St. Paul's Girls' School London UK
10 - 20 Westminster School London UK
20 - 30 Boston University Academy US
20 - 30 Crystal Springs Upland School US
20 - 30 Germantown Friends School US
20 - 30 Hotchkiss School US
20 - 30 Marborough School US
20 - 30 Noble and Greenough School US
20 - 30 Pingry School US
20 - 30 St. Albans School US
20 - 30 St. Mark's School of Texas US
20 - 30 St. Paul's School London US
30 - 40 Belmont Hill School US
30 - 40 Brunswick School US
30 - 40 Convent of the Sacred Heart US
30 - 40 Deerfield Academy US
30 - 40 Harvard-Westlake School US
30 - 40 Menlo School US
30 - 40 Riverdale Country School US
30 - 40 Rye Country Day School US
30 - 40 San Francisco University High School US
30 - 40 Winchester College UK
40 - 50 Bishops School US
40 - 50 Branson School US
40 - 50 Choate Rosemary Hall US
40 - 50 College Preparatory School US
40 - 50 Commonwealth School US
40 - 50 Eton College UK
40 - 50 Haberdasher's Aske's Boys' School UK
40 - 50 King's College School UK
40 - 50 Magdalen College School UK
40 - 50 Middlesex School US
50 - 60 Cate School US
50 - 60 Haverford School US
50 - 60 Hopkins Schools US
50 - 60 Newark Academy US
50 - 60 Nightingale-Bamford School US
50 - 60 North London Collegiate School UK
50 - 60 Oxford High School UK
50 - 60 Perse School for Girls UK
50 - 60 Regis High School US
50 - 60 Wycombe Abbey School UK
60 - 70 City of London School UK
60 - 70 City of London School for Girls UK
60 - 70 Lakeside School US
60 - 70 Manchester Grammar School UK
60 - 70 Maret School US
60 - 70 Ransom Everglades School US
60 - 70 Royal Grammar School Guildford UK
60 - 70 Thacher School US
60 - 70 Tonbridge School UK
60 - 70 University of Toronto Schools Canada
70 - 80 Concord Academy US
70 - 80 Delbarton School US
70 - 80 Episcopal High School US
70 - 80 Godolphin and Latymer School US
70 - 80 John Burroughs School US
70 - 80 Lick-Wilmerding High School US
70 - 80 Princeton Day School US
70 - 80 Sevenoaks School US
70 - 80 University of Chicago Laboratory School US
70 - 80 Upper Canada College Canada
80 - 90 Baldwin School US
80 - 90 Cheltenham Ladies' College UK
80 - 90 Haberdasher's Aske's School for Girls UK
80 - 90 Hampton School US
80 - 90 King Edward's School Birmingham UK
80 - 90 Lady Eleanor Holles School US
80 - 90 Perse School Cambridge UK
80 - 90 St. Andrew's School US
80 - 90 Taft School US
80 - 90 University College School UK
90 - 100 Abingdon School UK
90 - 100 Badminton School UK
90 - 100 Blair Academy US
90 - 100 Brighton College US
90 - 100 Convent of Sacred Heart School US
90 - 100 Friends Seminary US
90 - 100 Harrow School US
90 - 100 Hill School US
90 - 100 King's School Canterbury UK
90 - 100 St. Swithun's School UK

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They have contacts at most of the major universities and feel perfectly comfortable picking up the phone and advocating for a student to get accepted…

Students at Groton tend to be either very smart, very rich, or both (because some people just seem to have it all)…

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At Princeton, I think a lot of people feel lost because they've never really had failure before but Lawrenceville gave me a healthy dose of it…

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Lawrenceville School

Andover is more interested in graduating people who will contribute to society than they are in graduating glorified test-taking machines…

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Phillips Academy Andover

At Eton, while you are taught to tick the boxes, this is merely a preliminary measure: the emphasis is…

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Eton College

Compared to public schools and most other private schools, college counseling at Choate is…

Harvard student

Choate Rosemary Hall

Rigorous academic training for entrance to top-level academic universities. This can be both good and bad…

Oxford student

Perse School Cambridge

I had an outside college counselor assist me…because I felt that the Dalton counselor and I did not get along…

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Dalton School

Advantage of being taught at Westminster was that the teachers were very aware of any changes in the syllabus for exams, due to the fact that many of them…

Teaching is not geared simply to passing public exams but to cultivating intellect. I think this was a great help when it came to applying to Oxford.…

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Winchester College

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Extraordinarily successful college counseling program. Huge percentages of students attend Ivy League…

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Trinity School

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Manchester Grammar School

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