These are the latest 2016 rankings from Niche, and it looks like just about every school people in this year’s cycle are shooting for is one here. IMHO, you can’t go wrong with any of these schools. Best of luck!
https://k12.niche.com/rankings/private-high-schools/best-overall/?utm_source=fbppc&utm_campaign=fbppc_private
Love lurking on these - prepare for many posts based on the following theme
What the ?!* are those @?###!! doing rating X school at ___ and Y school at ___ (…followed by “factual” recitation on why no rational human could ever come up with these rankings)
:))
Like any ranking, there is a methodology of course. https://k12.niche.com/rankings/private-high-schools/best-overall/methodology/
Niche heavily relies on their user survey data. Don’t take it seriously. Not much new info there.
Well . . . . . at least they got the first school right. I’ve seen other rankings that messed up the order of the top 10 schools. 
Niche might want to rethink their methodology.
Some may argue ranking in itself is a silly idea. No methodology is non-controversial. I like to look at rankings in terms of “tiers”, and don’t believe #5 is necessarily better than #7 or vice versa. More importantly, rankings usually pool data/stats together in one place, which can come handy for side by side comparisons.
In their methodology, SAT scores and college matriculations are “self-reported by Niche users”!!!
I think I will take Forbes over Niche any day …
I never heard of Niche.
Apparently Niche was founded by a group of Carnegie Mellon graduates in 2002. This is their “About Us” section of their website:
https://niche.com/about/company/
I hadn’t heard of them either.
Yeah, I only see Niche when their ads pop up on my FB feed.
I used to work with them briefly years ago when they had just barely graduated from college (or may have still been in college) and were publishing the “insider” guides known as “The College Prowler” . As someone else mentioned, a major disadvantage of their rankings is that data are self-reported. One of the local private schools that I know had their rank based on an N of 2.