(KNSI) – Saint John’s Preparatory School in Collegeville has once again topped Niche.com’s ranking of Minnesota’s Catholic high schools.
Prep placed first out of 25 schools in the website’s 2027 Best Schools rankings. School officials say Prep has held the top spot on that list since 2018.
The private day and boarding school for grades six through 12 also earned an overall A+ grade from Niche. It ranked second out of eight boarding high schools in Minnesota and fifth out of 101 high schools in the state for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).
Niche, a school review website, builds its rankings from U.S. Department of Education data along with surveys and reviews from students and parents.
Prep sits on the Saint John’s University campus and has about 274 students, according to Niche. Its student-teacher ratio is seven to one.
Cathedral Middle and High School in St. Cloud ranked 15th on the same list of Minnesota Catholic high schools and received an overall A- grade from Niche. Cathedral, which has 559 students, also ranked 13th out of 449 high schools in the state for athletes.
Click here for the full rankings.
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