U.S. News\u2019s 2026-2027 New York rankings<\/a>, the new top three are:<\/p>\nNo. 1: Brooklyn Latin School, Brooklyn<\/p>\n
No. 2: City Honors School at Fosdick Masten Park, Buffalo<\/p>\n
No. 3: Baccalaureate School for Global Education, Long Island City<\/p>\n
No other New York school came close to cracking the national top 100 this cycle, which makes Brooklyn Latin\u2019s showing even more notable.<\/p>\n
The numbers behind the ranking<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Latin doesn\u2019t just look good on paper, its scorecard is the kind that makes guidance counselors do a double take. <\/p>\n
The school posted an overall score of 99.59 out of 100, built on results like:<\/p>\n
99% of students took at least one IB exam, and 95% passed at least one<\/p>\n
98% mathematics proficiency and 99% reading proficiency<\/p>\n
96% science proficiency<\/p>\n
99% graduation rate, well above the state median<\/p>\n
A 96.3 out of 100 College Readiness Index score<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Latin also ranked No. 2 in New York for both College Readiness Index and College Curriculum Breadth Index, trailing only a handful of schools statewide on any individual metric.<\/p>\n
A school built on rigor, not resources<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Latin is also proof that elite results don\u2019t require an elite ZIP code. <\/p>\n
Of its 772 students across grades 9 through 12, 47.5% are Asian, 21% are white, 10.6% are Hispanic, 9.8% are Black, and 9.2% identify as two or more races. <\/p>\n
Fifty-seven percent of students are classified as economically disadvantaged, with 51% enrolled in the free lunch program, according to U.S. News\u2019s school profile data. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a public school, tuition-free and open through a competitive admissions process, not a private academy with a hefty price tag attached.<\/p>\n
The school leans heavily on the International Baccalaureate curriculum rather than the AP-heavy track most specialized high schools follow, which partly explains why its scores stack up so well nationally. <\/p>\n
New York\u2019s Department of Education doesn\u2019t authorize the College Board to share AP data with U.S. News, so schools statewide are scored solely on IB participation and performance instead, a system that clearly plays to Brooklyn Latin\u2019s strengths.<\/p>\n
How the rankings actually work<\/p>\n
U.S. News evaluated 17,945 schools nationally and 1,232 schools in New York for this cycle, ranking schools on factors including College Readiness Index, College Curriculum Breadth, State Assessment Proficiency, State Assessment Performance, and Graduation Rate. <\/p>\n
Brooklyn Latin ranked No. 65 nationally for College Readiness Index (No. 2 in-state), No. 37 nationally for College Curriculum Breadth (also No. 2 in-state), No. 445 nationally for State Assessment Proficiency (No. 30 in-state), and No. 313 nationally for State Assessment Performance (No. 21 in-state).<\/p>\n
Why this matters for NYC families<\/p>\n
For a city with no shortage of specialized high schools competing for bragging rights, Brooklyn Latin taking the top spot statewide, and pulling ahead nationally, is a genuinely big deal.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a reminder that the city\u2019s most rigorous education isn\u2019t confined to the handful of schools most families default to when they think \u201ctop NYC public school,\u201d and that a Williamsburg address is currently producing better outcomes than schools in Manhattan or the Bronx that usually get more attention.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re navigating the city\u2019s high school admissions process and rankings like this carry weight in your decision-making, Brooklyn Latin just gave itself a new headline to put on the wall, and it\u2019s one that outranks every other public high school in New York State this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source \/ Brooklyn Latin School Stuyvesant? Bronx Science? Not this time. According to U.S. News & World Report\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-325684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Source \/ Brooklyn Latin School<\/p>\n