John Jay, Fox Lane High School Sports Ranked in NY's Top 100

Written by BRIAN MCCREADY (Patch Staff) and WENDY ANN MITCHELL (Patch Staff)

Tis the season to take a look at the top-ranked high school sports programs in the country and more importantly right here in New York.

Niche.com, which reviews school systems across the country based on data and surveys, has compiled the “2016 Districts with the Best Sports in New York” list.

In New York the top 5 high school sports programs are Victor Senior High School at No.1, followed by Garden City High School, Manhasset Secondary School, East Ridge Senior High School and Yorktown High School clocks in at No. 5.

Yorktown’s parents and students gave the high school’s sports program a 4.2 out of 5 on the Niche.com survey. With 28 sports offered, half of the male students and 41 percent of the female students participate in a sport, Niche.com said.

Rye and Bronxville high schools also cracked the Top 10.

Nationwide, the top 5 high schools sports programs are: No. 1 Glenwood High School in Illinois; No. 2, East Grand Rapids Public School in Michigan, No. 3, Summit Senior High Schools in New Jersey, No. 4, Souhegan Cooperative High School in New Hampshire, and No. 5. Eden Prairie Public Schools in Minnesota.

The rankings are largely based on staff and student feedback followed by the number of students who participate in athletics, the percentage of females and males enrolled on sports teams, and the number of sports offered by the high school.

Local high schools in nearly half the districts in Putnam, Rockland and Westchester counties made the list:

• No 5. Yorktown
• No. 8 Rye
• No. 10 Bronxville
• No. 23 Harrison
• No. 27 Byram Hills
• No. 39 Somers
• No. 42 Rye Neck
• No. 45 John Jay
• No. 50 Fox Lane
• No. 51 Pleasantville
• No. 53 Dobbs Ferry
• No. 57 Lakeland
• No. 62 Pelham Memorial
• No. 73 North Rockland
• No. 77 Walter Panas
• No. 82 Sleepy Hollow
• No. 83 Hendrick Hudson
• No. 85 Clarkstown South
• No. 90 Ossining
• No. 95 Nanuet
• No. 98 Valhalla

Click here to see how other schools ranked and why.

Patch Editor Lanning Taliaferro contributed to this report.

Photo credit: Mamaroneck School District