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Tuition and fees: $37,960

Enrollment: 320

Every student gets their own iPad at the beginning of the year to use in and out of class.

Source: The Branson School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $38,250

Enrollment: 530

A newly-founded school, Léman Manhattan Prep just graduated its first class of college-bound seniors this past spring.

Source: Léman Manhattan Preparatory School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $38,500

Enrollment: 295

Each year on Founder's Day, the school has the Founder's Day Regatta, a crew team competition.

Source: The Gunnery

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $38,600

Enrollment: 479 (9-12)

Thayer recently opened a writing center, which includes trained fellows to help students with any aspect of their writing.

Source: Thayer Academy

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $38,800

Enrollment: 430

Every Winsor senior does an independant study project on the topic of their choosing.

Source: Winsor School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $38,900

Enrollment: 1,792

Taking advantage of their Silicon Valley location, Harker hosts an annual research symposium for students and professionals in STEM fields.

Source: The Harker School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $39,050

Enrollment: 358

Canterbury has state-of-the-art athletic facilities, including a 25-yard indoor swimming pool and a 2,400 square foot fitness room with personal trainers.

Source: Canterbury School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $39,080

Enrollment: 728

In 1901 Maria Bowen Chapin established Miss Chapin's School at 12 West 47th Street with seven teachers and 78 students.

Source: The Chapin School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $39,150

Enrollment: 463 (9-12)

The Noble and Greenough ("Nobles") campus is a techie haven, with 400 computers, 60 iPods, 25 iPads, 15 PC Tablets, 25 netbooks, 10 Kindles, four specialized computer labs, and 10 computer kiosks.

Source: Noble and Greenough School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $39,265

Enrollment: 690

Established in 1881, Sacred Heart is the oldest independent all-girls school in New York City.

Source: Convent of the Sacred Heart

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $39,440

Enrollment: 375

Brooks' headmaster makes it a point to get to know the students. He's well known around campus for serving cookie dough at his house when he invites students over.

Source: Brooks School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $39,510

Enrollment: 519 (9-12)

Seniors and faculty perform comedic roasts of each other at the end of every school year.

Source: Buckingham Browne & Nichols

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $39,650

Enrollment: 865

Choate no longer uses food trays in their dining hall, effectively saving a third of a gallon of water per tray and enhancing efforts to go green.

Source: Choate Rosemary Hall 

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $39,830

Enrollment: 306

Every Wednesday students participate in Madeira's Co-Curriculum Program, which offers a unique leadership opportunity for each grade.

Source: The Madeira School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $39,850

Enrollment: 408

The all-boys school puts on its school plays with the students at neighboring all-girls school Miss Porter's.

Source: Avon Old Farms School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $39,900

Enrollment: 217

The top college destinations for Brearley seniors from 2009 to 2013 were Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth

Source: The Brearley School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $39,985

Enrollment: 157

Nightingale-Bamford has a "pathbreaking" internship program that has placed juniors and seniors at companies such as the Metropolitan Museum, Tribeca Enterprises, and JPMorgan Chase.

Source: The Nightingale-Bamford School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $40,012

Enrollment: 279

St. Albans offers its own school of public service for a month each summer.

Source: St. Albans School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $40,100

Enrollment: 650

Loomis Chaffee is the alma mater of many notable alumni, including philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, former New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, and fashion designer Jason Wu.

Source: Loomis Chaffee

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $40,140

Enrollment: 641 (9-12)

Columbia Prep typically has an outside speaker at their commencement ceremony. This year they hosted CNN president Jeff Zucker.

Source: Columbia Prep

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $40,150

Enrollment: 372

Forty percent of Groton graduates go on to pursue careers in business; another 20 percent go into legal fields.

Source: Groton School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $40,220

Enrollment: 1,300

Even though they're a city campus, Dalton is the only independent high school in Manhattan that fields a football team.

Source: The Dalton School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $40,300

Enrollment: 390

While the school admits both day and boarding students, the Governor's Academy is the "oldest continuously operating boarding school in the United States."

Source: The Governor's Academy

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $40,349

Enrollment: 452

Students have the option of spending a trimester in the NuVu Studio program, doing hands-on learning projects in partnership with PhD students and faculty from MIT.

Source: Beaver Country Day School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $40,350

Enrollment: 265

The outdoors are a huge part of learning at Cate School, and students regularly go kayaking, surfing, mountain biking, and rock climbing.

Source: Cate School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $40,550

Enrollment: 680

Milton Academy is known for cultivating some of the brightest young minds in the country; about 25 percent of graduates from the class of 2013 went to Ivy League schools.

Source: Milton Academy

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $40,650

Enrollment: 335

Students can travel to Quebec City and Paris to study French, or to Shanghai and Hangzhou to study Mandarin or traditional Peking Opera.

Source: The Cambridge School of Weston

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $40,700

Enrollment: 347

Since its founding in 1865, St. Mark's facilities have grown from a single schoolhouse to a sprawling 250-acre campus.

Source: St. Mark's School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $40,900

Enrollment: 525

Hewitt started in New York City during the 1920s as an exclusive co-ed kindergarten run by British educator Caroline D. Hewitt.

Source: The Hewitt School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Tuition and fees: $41,110

Enrollment: 223

Spence is home to many famous alumni, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Emmy Rossum, and has also starred in exterior shots when filming the TV show "Gossip Girl."

Source: The Spence School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: New York, N.Y.

Tuition and fees: $41,200

Enrollment: 120

Over the past 50 years, Browning has doubled the size of its student body, as well as added a new library, four new science laboratories, and two new art studios.

Source: The Browning School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: New York, N.Y.

Tuition and fees: $41,200

Enrollment: 225 (9-12)

The boys take mandatory subjects as underclassmen so that by their senior year they have the freedom to study whatever they want.

Source: Collegiate School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: Wellesley, Mass.

Tuition and fees: $41,250

Enrollment: 356 (9-12)

Dana Hall is one of just a few private schools in New England to offer a comprehensive equestrian riding program. Students can even take riding lessons to meet their phys-ed requirements.

Source: Dana Hall School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: Newton, Mass.

Tuition and fees: $41,325

Enrollment: 411

The girls at Newton Country Day School can skate for sport or leisure on a brand new ice hockey rink. The rink also has public skating hours, so non-students can use it too.

Source: Newton Country Day School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: New York, N.Y.

Tuition and fees: $41,370

Enrollment: 960

Trinity School has 2 libraries, 22 varsity sports, and 6 art studios. Languages taught are Chinese, French, German, Latin, Greek, Spanish, and Russian.

Source: Trinity School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: New York, N.Y.

Tuition and fees: $41,400

Enrollment: 600 (9-12)

Fieldston has over 50 student-run clubs, independent senior study projects, and semesters abroad to the Mountain School and Maine Coast Semester.

Source: Ethical Culture Fieldston School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: Kent, Conn.

Tuition and fees: $41,650

Enrollment: 565

Every Kent student has an on-campus job, whether it's leading campus tours for prospective students, fixing computers, or working in the dining hall.

Source: Kent School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: Farmington, Conn.

Tuition and fees: $41,780

Enrollment: 306

Day students get all of the same perks that boarding students do, and they often return to campus on the weekends for social events, sports games, and club activities.

Source: Miss Porter's School for Girls

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: Concord, Mass.

Tuition and fees: $41,800

Enrollment: 375

Middlesex has more than 50 student-run clubs and organizations for every interest, including a Harry Potter club, a flash mob club, and a "politically incorrect" debate club.

Source: Middlesex School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: New York, N.Y.

Tuition and fees: $41,865

Enrollment: 706

Marymount's historic Beaux Arts buildings are directly across from New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park.

Source: Marymount School of New York

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: Middleburg, Va.

Tuition and fees: $41,980

Enrollment: 160

Foxcroft has an interactive whiteboard in each classroom, an animal room in the science wing, and an observatory that houses multiple high-powered telescopes, and astrophotography and solar-observing accessories.

Source: The Foxcroft School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: Bronx, N.Y.

Tuition and fees: $42,100

Enrollment: 756 (9-12)

In 1965 the school established the John Dorr Nature Laboratory in Connecticut, a place where students take field trips for overnight camping, outdoor activities, and to learn about green energy solutions.

Source: Horace Mann School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: Sheffield, Mass.

Tuition and fees: $42,150

Enrollment: 391

Berkshire's eight-acre solar installation accounts for 40% of the school's electricity needs, and provides an energy laboratory for students.

Source: The Berkshire School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: Concord, Mass.

Tuition and fees: $42,200

Enrollment: 381

Concord preps its students well for the SATs—students have average scores of 2000.

Source: Concord Academy

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: Groton, Mass.

Tuition and fees: $42,280

Enrollment: 399

Aside from the gorgeous views of central Massachusetts, Lawrence Academy makes multiple state-of-the-art science and language labs available to its students.

Source: Lawrence Academy

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: Lakeville, Conn.

Tuition and fees: $42,445

Enrollment: 600

Hotchkiss allows students to participate in off-campus semester programs offered in France, Italy, China, Spain, and South Africa.

Source: The Hotchkiss School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: Salisbury, Conn.

Tuition and fees: $42,550

Enrollment: 309

The Salisbury student body gathers together once every day, including twice-weekly family style dinners with faculty members and students.

Source: Salisbury School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: Bronx, N.Y.

Tuition and fees: $43,000

Enrollment: 1,050

Riverdale's 27.5-acre campus is the largest in the New York City area.

Source: Riverdale Country School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: New York, N.Y.

Tuition and fees: $43,497

Enrollment: 575

The school launched a science initiative two years ago, including seminars on Women in Science Education and college-level research opportunities. 

Source: Birch Wathen Lenox School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.

Location: Lawrenceville, N.J.

Tuition and fees: $44,885

Enrollment: 816

Boarding and day students alike are part of Lawrenceville's House System, which offers increasing freedom and independence as students move up grades.

Source: The Lawrenceville School

Methodology: Rankings are based on tuition and fees for daytime-only students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2013-2014 school year. Boarding-only schools and special-needs high schools were not included.