Manhattan, Brooklyn, Riverdale, Westchester
During the more than twenty years in which we have practiced, families frequently come to us for our rankings of the New York City and Westchester private schools. Families want to know: What do we get for our yearly tuition? How does each Manhattan, Brooklyn, Riverdale and Westchester private school rank in terms of education and college admission?
Here’s the story:
- Unlike the public schools, private schools don’t participate in and publish yearly testing results. So there is no apples-to-apples NYC private school student performance ranking publicly available.
- From time to time, magazines and newspapers publish NYC private school rankings based upon various criteria that usually center upon admission to top colleges. At Abacus Guide, we collect this college rankings data for private schools. However, we find this ranking data problematic and misleading for very specific reasons.
- We exclusively compile Manhattan, Brooklyn, Riverdale, and Westchester private schools rankings based upon our confidential analysis of how difficult the schools are to get into.
We share all of this confidential information only with our private clients. If you’re interested in becoming one, inquire here.
For a list of New York City private schools, including more than 65 well-known NYC private schools, serving students in the Kindergarten – 12th grade years, please see below. We hope it makes your research easier. Also keep bookmarked: Best New York City Private Schools Blog
BRONX | Riverdale
All three Riverdale private schools attract large numbers of bright, intellectually motivated students (school populations 1000 or more). All are similar to colleges: large, beautiful campuses with excellent sports and arts facilities, many clubs and teams, diverse course offerings including many honors classes, and talented faculty. All attract a largely liberal student population from NYC and nearby Westchester suburbs. This year, many Abacus Guide educational consulting clients achieved admission to these very competitive Riverdale private schools.
- The Fieldston School | Nursery-12th Grade
Fieldston Road and Manhattan College Parkway, Riverdale, NY 10471
718-329-7300 | www.ecfs.org - The Horace Mann School | Nursery-12th Grade
Preschool: 55 East 90th St, New York, NY 10128
K-5th Grade: 4440 Tibbet Ave, Riverdale, NY 10471
6th-12th Grade: 231 West 246th St, Riverdale, NY 10471
718-432-4000 | www.horacemann.org - The Riverdale Country School | Nursery-12th Grade
5250 Fieldston Rd, Riverdale, NY 10471
718-549-8810 | www.riverdale.edu
BROOKLYN
The Brooklyn Heights private schools are the most competitive in Brooklyn. Packer and Saint Ann’s, while different in focus, both attract a motivated, liberal Brooklyn and lower Manhattan student base.
The other Brooklyn private schools attract many local students. Poly Prep, because it offers bus service, also sees many students from around the city. Each school is individual in character and philosophy, with an intimate atmosphere. Poly Prep is unusual amongst city schools because it offers such stellar arts and sports facilities.
Many Abacus Guide educational consulting clients seek admission to the Brooklyn Heights private schools. For more information on our services, please click here.
Brooklyn Heights & Downtown:
- Packer Collegiate Institute | Nursery-12th Grade
170 Joralemon St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-875-6644 | www.packer.edu - Saint Ann’s School | PreK-12th Grade
129 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-522-1660 | www.saintannsny.org - Brooklyn Friends School | Nursery-12th Grade
Lower School: 375 Pearl St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Upper School: 116 Lawrence St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-852-1029 | www.brooklynfriends.org
Cobble Hill & Carroll Gardens:
- Brooklyn Heights Montessori | Nursery-8th Grade
185 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-858-5100 | www.bhmsny.org - International School of Brooklyn | Nursery-8th Grade
477 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
718-369-3023 | www.isbrooklyn.org
Fort Greene & Clinton Hill:
- Greene Hill School | Nursery-8th Grade
39 Adelphi St, Brooklyn, NY 11205
718-230-3608 | www.greenehillschool.org - Trilok School | Nursery-8th Grade
143 Waverly Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205
718-797-1700 | www.trilokschool.org
Park Slope:
- The Berkeley Carroll School | Nursery-12th Grade
Nursery-Kindergarten: 712 Carroll St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
1st-4th Grade: 701 Carroll St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
5th-12th Grade: 181 Lincoln Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11217
718-789-6060 | www.berkeleycarroll.org - Poly Prep Country Day School | Nursery-12th Grade
N-4th Grade (Park Slope: 50 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY 11215
5th-12th Grade (Dyker Heights): 9216 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11228
718-836-9800 | www.polyprep.org
Red Hook:
- BASIS Independent Brooklyn | Nursery-12th Grade
556 Columbia St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
917-473-1615 | www.basisindependent.com
MANHATTAN
Downtown: The Downtown Manhattan private schools all reflect their local neighborhood, attracting a largely liberal, and sometimes artistic, literary, and/or activist parent community. At Abacus Guide, we give our educational consulting clients the inside scoop on each Downtown NYC school’s character, offerings, and level of competitiveness of admission. For more information on our services for admission to Downtown NYC schools, click here.
- Academy of St. Joseph | Nursery-8th Grade
111 Washington Pl, New York, NY 10014
212-243-5420 | www.academyofsaintjoseph.org - Avenues: The World School | Nursery-12th Grade
259 10th Ave, New York, NY 10001
212-935-5000 | www.avenues.org - Battery Park Montessori | Nursery-Kindergarten
21 South End Ave, New York, NY 10280
212-235-2320 | www.batteryparkmontessori.org - City & Country School | Nursery-8th Grade
146 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011
212-242-7802 | www.cityandcountry.org - The École | Nursery-8th Grade
111 East 22nd St, New York, NY 10010
646-410-2238 | www.einy.org - Friends Seminary | Kindergarten-12th Grade
222 East 16th St, New York, NY 10003
212-242-7802 | www.friendsseminary.org - Grace Church School | Nursery-12th Grade
86 4th Ave, New York, NY 10003
212-475-5609 | www.gcschool.org - Leman Manhattan Preparatory School | Nursery-12th Grade
41 Broad St, New York, NY 10004
212-232-0266 | www.lemanmanhattan.org - Little Red Schoolhouse and Elisabeth Irwin High School | Nursery-12th Grade
40 Charlton St, New York, NY 10014
212-477-5316 | www.lrei.org - Pine Street School | Nursery-8th Grade
25 Pine St, New York, NY 10005
212-235-2325 | www.pinestreetschool.com - St. Luke’s School | Nursery-8th Grade
487 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014
212-924-5960 | www.stlukeschool.org - Village Community School | Kindergarten-8th Grade
272 West 10th St, New York, NY 10014
212-691-5146 | www.vcsnyc.org
East Side: The East Side is home to many of the most competitive private schools in NYC. If you’re looking for an all-boys or all-girls school, you’ve hit pay-dirt: many of these institutions are on the East Side. If you prefer coed schools, there are plenty here too. It’s hard to generalize about the East Side NYC private schools. While many have a traditional, conservative bent, others are quite progressive. The school choice is tremendous: besides the well-known “Baby Ivies” (a questionable term), you can find a Montessori school, a French school, an Italian school, a Christian school, an international school, a tutoring school, etc. Abacus Guide clients have been accepted at ALL the well-known East Side private schools. including Dalton, Nightingale, Buckley, Ramaz, and UNIS. For more information on our services, please click here.
- The Allen-Stevenson School | Kindergarten-9th Grade
132 East 78th St, New York, NY 10021
212-288-6710 | www.allen-stevenson.org - The Beekman School & Tutoring Center | 9th-12th Grade
220 East 50th St, New York, NY 10022
212-755-6666 | www.beekmanschool.org - The Birch-Wathen Lenox School | Kindergarten-12th Grade
210 East 77th St, New York, NY 10028
212-861-0404 | www.bwl.org - The Brearley School | Kindergarten-12th Grade
610 East 83rd St, New York, NY 10028
212-744-8582 | www.brearley.org - The British International School of New York | Nursery-12th Grade
20 Waterside Plaza, New York, NY 10016
212-481-2700 | www.bis-ny.org - The Browning School | Nursery-12th Grade
52 East 62nd St, New York, NY 10021
212-838-6280 | www.browning.edu - The Buckley School | Kindergarten-9th Grade
113 East 73rd St, New York, NY 10021
212-535-8787 | www.buckleyschoolnyc.org - The Caedmon School | Nursery-5th Grade
416 East 80th St, New York, NY 10021
212-879-2296 | www.caedmonschool.org - The Cathedral School | Nursery-8th Grade
319 East 74th St, New York, NY 10021
212-249-2840 | www.cathedralschoolny.org - The Chapin School | Kindergarten-12th Grade
100 East End Ave, New York, NY 10028
212-744-2335 | www.chapin.edu - Convent of the Sacred Heart | Nursery-12th Grade
1 East 91st St, New York, NY 10128
212-722-4745 | www.cshnyc.org - The Dalton School | Kindergarten-12th Grade
108 East 89th St, New York, NY 10128
212-423-5200 | www.dalton.org - Emet Classical Academy | 6th-12th Grade
East 82nd St, New York, NY 10128
212- | www.emetclassicalacademy.org - The Family School | Nursery-6th Grade
323 East 47th St, New York, NY 10017
212-688-5950 | www.thefamilyschoolsnyc.org - The Geneva School of Manhattan | Nursery-8th Grade
593 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065
212-754-9988 | www.genevaschool.net - The Hewitt School | Kindergarten-12th Grade
45 East 75th St, New York, NY 10021
212-288-1919 | www.hewittschool.org - La Scuola D’Italia Guglielmo Marconi | Nursery-12th Grade
12 East 96th St, New York, NY 10128
212-369-3290 | www.lascuoladitalia.org - Loyola School | 9th-12th Grade
980 Park Ave, New York, NY 10028
212-288-3522 | www.loyola-nyc.org - Lycée Français de New York | Nursery-12th Grade
505 East 75th St, New York, NY 10128
212-369-1400 | www.lfny.org - Lyceum Kennedy | Preschool-12th Grade
225 East 43rd St, New York, NY 10017
212-681-1877 | www.lyceumkennedy.org - Manhattan Country School | Nursery-8th Grade
7 East 96th St, New York, NY 10128
212-348-0952 | www.manhattancountryschool.org - Marymount School of New York | Nursery-12th Grade
1026-1028 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128
212-744-4486 | www.marymountnyc.org - The Nightingale-Bamford School | Kindergarten-12th Grade
20 East 92nd St, New York, NY 10128
212-289-5020 | www.nightingale.org - Ramaz School | Nursery-12th Grade
60 East 78th St, New York, NY 10021
212-774-8000 | www.ramaz.org - Regis High School | 9th-12th Grade
55 East 84th St, New York, NY 10028
212-288-1100 | www.regis-nyc.org - The Rudolf Steiner School | Nursery-12th Grade
15 East 78th St, New York, NY 10021
212-879-1101 | www.steiner.edu - Saint David’s School | Nursery-8th Grade
12 East 89th St, New York, NY 10128
212-369-0058 | www.saintdavids.org - The Spence School | Kindergarten-12th Grade
22 East 91st St, New York, NY 10128
212-289-5940 | www.spenceschool.org - St. Bernard’s School | Kindergarten-9th Grade
4 East 98th St, New York, NY 10029
212-289-2878 | www.stbernards.org - The Town School | Nursery-8th Grade
540 East 91st St, New York, NY 10021
212-288-4383 | www.thetownschool.org - The Trevor Day School | Nursery-12th Grade
N-5th (West Side): 1 West 88th St, New York, NY 10024
6th-12th (East Side): 312 East 95th St, New York, NY 10128
212-426-3360 | www.trevor.org - United Nations International School | Kindergarten-12th Grade
24-50 FDR Dr, New York, NY 10010
212-684-7400 | www.unis.org
West Side: On the West Side, competition for entry to some private schools is very stiff, and to others much less so. At Abacus Guide, we help our educational consulting clients apply to a balanced list of West Side NYC private schools. We educate people about not only the well-known schools, but also about some other schools that we think are strong. Some of our clients recently achieved admission to Trinity, Ethical Culture, Collegiate, CGPS, Trevor, and Dwight, among other schools. Like the East Side, the West Side offers incredible diversity in school choice. The area is home to a few single-sex schools, as well as Jewish schools, church-affiliated schools, an international school, a performers’ school, etc. Many Abacus Guide educational consulting clients seek admission to these private schools. For more information on our services, please click here.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel School | Nursery-12th Grade
30 West End Ave, New York, NY 10023
212-784-1234 | www.heschel.org - The Alexander Robertson School | Kindergarten-6th Grade
3 West 95th St, New York, NY 10025
212-663-6441 | www.alexanderrobertson.org - Bank Street School for Children | Nursery-8th Grade
610 West 112th St, New York, NY 10025
212-875-4433 | www.bankstreet.edu - BASIS Independent Manhattan | PreK-12th Grade
PreK-5th Grade: 795 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10025
6th-12th Grade: 556 West 22nd St, New York, NY 10011
929-220-3800 | www.basisindependent.com - The Calhoun School | Nursery-12th Grade
433 West End Ave, New York, NY 10024
212-877-1700 | www.calhoun.org - The Cathedral School | Kindergarten-8th Grade
1047 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025
212-316-7500 | www.cathedralnyc.org - Collegiate School | Kindergarten-12th Grade
260 West 78th St, New York, NY 10024
212-812-8500 | www.collegiateschool.org - Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School | Nursery-12th Grade
5 West 93rd St, New York, NY 10025
212-749-6200 | www.cgps.org - Corlears School | Nursery-4th Grade
324 West 15th St, New York, NY 10011
212-741-2800 | www.corlearsschool.org - De La Salle Academy | 6th-8th Grade
202 West 97th St, New York, NY 10025
212-316-5840 | www.delasalleacademy.com - The Dwight School | Kindergarten-12th Grade
291 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
212-724-2146 | www.dwight.edu - Ethical Culture | Nursery-6th Grade
33 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023
212-712-6223 | www.ecfs.org - Metropolitan Montessori School | Nursery-6th Grade
325 West 85th St, New York, NY 10024
212-579-5525 | www.mmsny.org - Professional Children’s School | 4th-12th Grade
132 West 60th St, New York, NY 10023
212-582-3116 | www.pcs-nyc.org - The Rodeph Sholom School | Nursery-8th Grade
168 West 79th St, New York, NY 10024
212-362-0037 | www.rodephsholomschool.org - The Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan | Kindergarten-8th Grade
805 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10025
212-427-9500 | www.sssm.org - Speyer Legacy School | Kindergarten-8th Grade
211 West 61st St, New York, NY 10023
212-581-4000 | www.speyerlegacyschool.org - St. Hilda & St. Hugh’s School | Nursery-8th Grade
619 West 61st St, New York, NY 10025
212-932-1980 | www.sthildas.org - The Studio School | Nursery-8th Grade
117 West 95th St, New York, NY 10025
212-678-2416 | www.studioschoolnyc.org - The Trevor Day School | Nursery-12th Grade
N-5th (West Side): 1 West 88th St, New York, NY 10024
6th-12th (East Side): 312 East 95th St, New York, NY 10128
212-426-3360 | www.trevor.org - Trinity School | Kindergarten-12th Grade
139 West 91st St, New York, NY 10024
212-873-1650 | www.trinityschoolnyc.org - York Prep | 6th-12th Grade
40 West 68th St, New York, NY 10023
212-362-0400 | www.yorkprep.org
Staten Island
- New Dorp Christian Academy | Nursery-8th Grade
259 Rose Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306
718-351-4442 | www.newdropchristianacademy.org - Staten Island Academy | Nursery-12th Grade
715 Todt Hill Rd, Staten Island, NY 10304
718-987-8100 | www.statenislandacademy.org