These NJ High Schools Send the Most Grads to Harvard, Princeton & MIT

New Jersey’s schools are consistently ranked among the nation’s best, but are some high schools more likely to send their graduates to Ivy League universities? A new report from PolarisList dug into thousands of college enrollment records to find out which schools sent the most grads to Harvard, Princeton, and MIT—and five New Jersey high schools rose to the top. 

PolarisList evaluated schools throughout the country through one very specific lens: the number of students a high school sends to a top-tier college. Analysts looked at 30,000 records to see which schools sent the highest number of graduates to Harvard University, Princeton University (PU) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) after the 2023-24 graduating year.

Ranking first in the state, Princeton High School in Princeton sent one student to Harvard University, 19 students to Princeton University, and 5 students to MIT after the 2023-24 graduating year.

The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville sent 3 grads to Harvard and 17 to PU.

Bergen County Academies in Hackensack sent 4 teens to Harvard, 3 to Princeton, and 5 to MIT.

West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North (WW-P) in Plainsboro sent 3 students to Princeton, and 4 to MIT.

Pingry School grads enrolled 6 times at Princeton U., and once at MIT, after they left the Basking Ridge school.

Princeton High, Bergen County Academies and WW-P are public high schools, while The Lawrenceville School and Pingry are private schools.

Top Public Schools

1. Princeton High School in Princeton
2. Bergen County Academies in Hackensack
3. West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North in Plainsboro

Top Private Schools

1. The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville
2. Pingry School in Basking Ridge

Overall List

1. Princeton High School
2. The Lawrenceville School
3. Bergen County Academies
4. (Tie) West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North and Pingry School

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