The Hotchkiss School is proud to announce it has been nationally recognized as the #1 private high school and #1 boarding high school in America by Niche, the country’s leading college and school search platform.

Niche also named Hotchkiss the #1 best high school for STEM in Connecticut. 

View Niche’s 2026 Best Schools in America rankings.

These prestigious rankings reflect Hotchkiss’s exceptional performance across numerous factors analyzed by Niche, including academic performance, extracurricular activity opportunities, college enrollment, data from dozens of public data sources, and user input from students, alumni, and parents. 

Hotchkiss thanks its faculty, staff, students, parents, and community for their hard work and dedication in making the School a place where excellence thrives.