ST. LOUIS — Two St. Louis area schools made the top 50 of a national school ranking, including one in the top 10.
Niche, a platform that helps connect colleges and schools with students and families through ratings and profiles, conducts an annual K-12 School and District Ranking list across the country.
This year, the Ladue School District was named the sixth-best district in the country, up two spots from last year. The Clayton School District also placed highly in the national rankings as the 31st-best district.
Missouri's best public high schools:
- Ladue Horton Watkins High School
- Clayton High School
- Lafayette High School
- Marquette Senior High School
- Kirkwood Senior High School
- Metro High School
- Parkway Central High School
- Gateway Science Academy Fyler High School
- Parkway West High School
- Maplewood-Richmond Heights High School
Missouri's best private high schools:
- John Burroughs School
- MICDS - Mary Institute & St. Louis Country Day School
- Thomas Jefferson School
- The Barstow School
- The Whitfield School
- Pembroke Hill School
- Columbia Independent School
- Saint Louis Priory School
- Visitation Academy
- Principia School
Missouri's best school districts:
- Ladue School District
- School District of Clayton
- Rockwood R-VI School District
- Kirkwood School District
- Lee's Summit R-VII School District
- Webster Groves School District
- Blue Springs R-IV School District
- Parkway School District
- Maplewood-Richmond Heights School District
- Francis Howell School District
The top-ranking district in the Metro East is Belleville Township High School District No. 201, which was ranked the 16th best in the St. Louis area and 52nd best in Illinois.
The top-ranking schools in the Metro East were Althoff High School, which was ranked the 20th-best Catholic high school in Illinois, and Governor French Academy, which was the No. 14 private K-12 school in Illinois.
