Schools known for Baseball.

From a 1978 tennis academy to 600 acres of AP classrooms, drawing student-athletes from 60-plus countries.

On a Lake Florence campus in Central Florida, boarders from some 80 countries share dorms with a basketball program that keeps feeding the NBA draft.

In Summerlin's desert suburbs, a Catholic college-prep whose football dynasty has claimed four national titles and 15 state crowns.

In the Saddleback foothills, Orange County's only Catholic IB Diploma track meets a decade of CIF Commissioner's Cups.

An urban Long Beach public school where the century-old motto 'Scholars and Champions' still fits a campus with more NFL alumni than any other in America.

Along the LA River in Studio City, a former golf course is rising into a riverside campus of trails, turf and native habitat.

A Wallingford campus where an I.M. Pei arts center anchors a rare, dedicated Arabic and Middle Eastern studies track.

On a wooded 33-acre campus above Lake Washington, a no-AP curriculum sets a rigor bar that exceeds the College Board's own.

Born as Columbia Teachers College's 1887 experiment, now a Riverdale hilltop campus that swaps AP exams for homegrown advanced courses

A 1915 Atherton campus near Stanford where an 8:1 ratio lets students chart their own humanities, STEM, or arts path.

On a Peninsula estate once built by railroad money, this day school ditched AP courses for honors-level, student-driven research.

Founded in 1980 by five embassies, this Shunyi day school pairs a US diploma track with IB rigor and dual-language classes from early years.

A Federal-era Woodley Park estate carries forward the French-language roots planted by three immigrant sisters in 1911.

On a 187-acre abbey campus outside Morristown, Benedictine monks still guide a rigorous, near-1,500-year-old liberal arts tradition.

A 40-acre campus tucked into the Foret de Soignes beside a UNESCO site, pairing British roots with one of the world's earliest IB programmes.

Founded in 1709 as a charity school, now the oldest continuously operating school in New York City, still built on a rare full Classics department