For the fourth year in a row, Mount St. Mary Academy has been selected as the top private high school in the area in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s annual “Best of the Best Readers’ Choice Awards” competition. The honor was announced in a special section of the newspaper published on October 19, 2025.
This marks the ninth time in four years the school has been voted the #1 best! In addition to its fourfold feat in the Best Private High School category in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s contest, Mount St. Mary Academy was also named the Best Private High School winner in Little Rock Soirée’s “Soirée Recommends 2025 and 2024,” Arkansas Times’ “Best of Arkansas 2025 and 2022,” and AY Magazine’s “Best of 2023” readers’ polls.