Top Private High Schools in New York City for Asian International Students

New York City has some of the best private high schools in the United States, if not in the world. Here is my list of the top private high schools, especially for Asian international students, ranked from top to bottom:

1. Trinity School

2. The Brearley School

3. Horace Mann School

4. Collegiate School

5. Regis High School

6. Riverdale Country School

7. Dalton School

8. The Spence School

9. The Chapin School

10. The Nightingale-Bamford School

11. Convent of the Sacred Heart

12. Lycée Français de New York

13. Avenues The World School

14. Dwight School New York

Here is a detailed spreadsheet on how I calculated the rankings. Basically, I averaged the ranking from three sources: Niche, PolarisList and Asian %.

Niche is a great and comprehensive website that provides rankings of schools around the United States. You can read their website on how they rank the schools, but they factor in criteria such as: Academics, Teachers, Clubs & Activities, Diversity, College Prep and Sports.

While PolarisList is not nearly as comprehensive or well known as Niche, they provide very specialized rankings based purely on the number of students who were admitted to three top ranked colleges: Harvard, Princeton and MIT. (It would have been great if they included some of the other top Ivy League colleges and Stanford, but I think the rankings based on just Harvard, Princeton and MIT is a fairly good indicator). The latest year that their website has data for is from 2020, so it could be a bit outdated. Since getting into the Ivy League colleges (plus MIT and Stanford) is the top reason why Asian parents want to send their children to a top private high school in the first place, this is why I am including the PolarisList data as one of the three rankings to be factored into my rankings.

Finally, I stack ranked the private high schools based on the percentage of the students who are classified as “Asian” (data is from Niche). So Avenues The World School, which has an Asian student body of 26% of the total student body, has an Asian Rank of #1. Even though Asian international students would probably feel welcomed at any of the top private high schools in the list, I think that schools that have higher Asian student populations would probably offer more peers that are comfortable with Asian international students. So the Asian Rank is the third source of the raw rankings.

In the case where the average of the three raw rankings are tied (for example Trinity School and The Brearley School are tied with an Average Rank score of 3.0), I ranked Trinity School as #1, based on its better ranking without the Asian Rank score.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how to modify the ranking calculations in the future, especially if you are an Asian parent, with children currently going to school in Asia.