Niche Schools Scraper - K-12 Grades, Rankings & Tuition

What does Niche Schools Scraper do?

Niche Schools Scraper reads Niche.com's school rankings and returns one row per K-12 school, school district or college: the overall Niche grade and the academics, teachers and diversity grades, the ranking it holds, students, student-teacher ratio, the school's own website, tuition, graduation rate, SAT/ACT, AP enrollment and proficiency, review rating and count. Turn on the full profile and each row also gets the phone number, street address and ZIP, every subject grade, all published rankings, the profile's statistics table with national figures, survey results and the latest reviews.

Also searched as: Niche scraper, Niche.com API, Niche school ratings scraper, K-12 school data, school district rankings.

• Every Niche ranking list - best schools, most diverse, best teachers, college prep, largest, STEM, arts, athletes, standout schools, best school districts, best colleges, top public universities, best value colleges.
• Any location - a state, city, county, school district or ZIP code, one search each. Empty = the whole United States (126,642 ranked schools in October 2026).
• Niche's own filters, applied by Niche - grade level, public / charter / magnet / private, religion, boarding, coed, Montessori and other specialties, AP / IB / gifted programs, tuition cap, student-teacher ratio, minimum academics / teachers / diversity / sports grade, NAIS / TABS / NCEA / ACSI / CSI membership.
• Stats on every row at no extra charge - Niche returns grades, website, tuition and test scores for 25 schools in one request.
• Full profile add-on - phone, address, ZIP, district, all grades, rankings, statistics, polls, star histogram, latest reviews; for districts, the schools the district lists.
• Paste Niche URLs - any Niche search page (its filters are kept) or school, district and college profiles.
• Monitor mode - only schools that are new since the last run, or whose rank or overall grade changed.
• No login, no cookies, no API key. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the API.

What data can you get from Niche?

🏫 Name, nicheId, profile url	🏷️ Type (public, private, charter, magnet, Catholic...)	🎒 Grades offered (9-12, PK, K-8)
📍 City, state, latitude, longitude	🏛️ School district (name + id)	🌐 School website
🅰️ Overall Niche grade (A+)	📚 Academics, teachers, diversity grades	🏆 Rank, ranking size, ranking name
👩‍🎓 Students	👩‍🏫 Student-teacher ratio	💵 Yearly tuition (private)
🎓 Graduation rate	📝 Average SAT / ACT and ranges	📈 AP enrollment, reading and math proficiency
⭐ Review rating and count	💬 Featured review	🆔 NCES id, CEEB code, state school id
🏛️ Colleges: acceptance rate, net price, in/out-of-state tuition	💼 Colleges: earnings and employment 5 years out	🔗 Colleges: application URL
☎️ Phone (profile)	🏠 Street address and ZIP (profile)	📊 Every subject grade and the stats table with national figures (profile)
🥇 All published rankings (profile)	🗳️ Student and parent poll results (profile)	🏫 District member schools (profile)

How to scrape Niche with Niche Schools Scraper

1. Create a free Apify account - it comes with free monthly credit.
2. Open Niche Schools Scraper and pick a Ranking list.
3. Add one or more Locations ("Texas", "Austin, TX", "Travis County, TX", "Austin ISD", "10024") or leave it empty for the whole country.
4. Set any Filters and the Max results; tick Full profile if you need phone and address.
5. Click Start. A 10-school run finishes in about 10-25 seconds.
6. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or connect them to your tools.

⬇️ Input

What to scrape

Parameter	Type	Description
list	select	Niche ranking list. Default best-schools.
locations	string list	States, cities, counties, school districts or ZIP codes. One search per location. Empty = United States.
startUrls	string list	Niche search pages or profile URLs (/k12/<school>/, /k12/d/<district>/, /colleges/<college>/).

Filters (K-12 school lists)

Parameter	Type	Description
gradeLevels	multi-select	Pre-K, elementary, middle, high school, K-8 only, K-12 only.
schoolTypes	multi-select	Public (all), traditional, charter, magnet, private.
religions	multi-select	Catholic, Christian, Jewish, Islamic.
boardingOnly, coed	checkbox, select	Boarding schools; coed / all-girls / all-boys.
specialties, programs	multi-select	Online, special education, Montessori, therapeutic; AP, IB, gifted.
organization	select	NAIS, TABS, NCEA, ACSI or CSI members.
highestGrade	select	Leave out schools teaching above this grade.
maxTuition, maxStudentTeacherRatio	integer	Tuition cap (USD/year), ratio cap.
minAcademicsGrade, minTeachersGrade, minDiversityGrade, minSportsGrade	select	A, B, C or D or better.

Refine, extra data, monitoring, output

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
nameContains	string list	-	Keep names containing any of these words.
minReviews, minRating	number	0	Minimum review count / average rating.
withWebsiteOnly	checkbox	false	Only schools with a published website.
includeStats	checkbox	true	Grades, website, tuition, test scores for every row (free).
includeProfile	checkbox	false	The full profile (paid add-on per school).
maxReviewsPerSchool	integer	3	Latest reviews kept from the profile (0-3).
monitorMode, monitorStoreName	checkbox, text	false	Deliver only new or changed schools.
maxResults, maxResultsPerSearch	integer	50, 0	Rows per run / per location (0 = no limit).
compact	checkbox	false	18 core columns only.
proxyConfiguration	proxy	direct	Leave as is; your own proxy URLs are used first when given.

Input JSON

{
  "list": "best-schools",
  "locations": ["California"],
  "schoolTypes": ["private"],
  "religions": ["catholic"],
  "gradeLevels": ["high"],
  "maxTuition": 20000,
  "maxResults": 10
}

That exact input returned 10 Catholic high schools in California, every one with tuition between $10,100 and $19,300 (57 matched in total).

Type locations the way you would say them

A state can be a name or a code. A city works best as "City, ST". A county needs the word "County". A school district can be its name or its short form ("Austin ISD" found Austin Independent School District, 119 schools). Five digits are read as a ZIP code. Each location runs as its own search, so maxResultsPerSearch keeps one big state from using the whole budget.

Paste a search URL when you already have one

Set up the search on niche.com, copy the address and put it in startUrls: the Actor reads Niche's own filters from that page.

⬆️ Output

One row per school (a real row from a 10-row run on 2026-10-16, trimmed):

{
  "nicheId": "dbdaaef5-4139-43e6-9539-29a105c21f9b",
  "name": "School for the Talented & Gifted",
  "schoolType": "Magnet School",
  "gradesOffered": "9-12",
  "city": "Dallas",
  "state": "TX",
  "district": { "name": "Dallas Independent School District", "nicheId": "cf7410e6-db07-4afd-bcb9-4595bc02dde6", "url": null },
  "website": "https://tagmagnet.dallasisd.org/",
  "overallGrade": "A+",
  "academicsGrade": "A+",
  "teachersGrade": "A+",
  "rank": 1,
  "rankOutOf": 1896,
  "rankList": "Best Public High Schools in Texas",
  "students": 555,
  "studentTeacherRatio": 17,
  "graduationRate": 95,
  "averageSat": 1390,
  "averageAct": 32,
  "reviewRating": 4.27,
  "reviewCount": 229,
  "url": "https://www.niche.com/k12/school-for-the-talented-and-gifted-dallas-tx/"
}

With the full profile (a real district row, trimmed):

{
  "name": "Needham Public Schools",
  "phone": "(781) 455-0400",
  "streetAddress": "1330 Highland Ave",
  "zipCode": "02492",
  "grades": { "Overall Niche Grade": "A+", "Academics": "A+", "Teachers": "A+", "College Prep": "A+", "Administration": "A", "Resources & Facilities": "A" },
  "stats": { "Percent Proficient - Reading": 74, "Average Graduation Rate": 99, "Free or Reduced Lunch": 7.1, "Student-Teacher Ratio": 12 },
  "statsNational": { "Student-Teacher Ratio": 16, "Expenses Per Student": 17833.55 },
  "rankings": [{ "list": "Best School Districts in Massachusetts", "rank": 2, "outOf": 217 }],
  "areaGrades": { "Good for Families": "A+", "Housing": "B-" },
  "memberSchools": [{ "name": "Newman Elementary School", "gradesOffered": "PK, K-5", "overallGrade": "A+", "reviewCount": 1 }],
  "reviewHistogram": { "1": 1, "3": 4, "4": 18, "5": 21 }
}

Fields and how often they are filled

Measured on a 100-school run (best schools in Florida, 2026-10-16) and a 5-row full-profile run (3 Massachusetts districts, Stanford, Westlake High School).

Field	Fill	Field	Fill
name, type, city, state, lat/long, url	100%	overall, academics, teachers, diversity grade	100%
rank, ranking name, students, ratio	100%	website	99%
average SAT / ACT (Niche users)	100%	graduation rate	98%
review rating, count, featured review	100%	NCES id / CEEB code	95%
AP enrollment	76%	tuition (private schools)	61% of all rows
photo	57%	virtual tour link	49%
district (public district schools)	36%	reading / math proficiency	34%
profile: address, ZIP, stats, rankings, histogram, reviews	5/5	profile: phone	4/5 (Niche shows no college phone)
profile: area grades	4/5	profile: member schools	3/3 districts

Each statistic is published by Niche only where its source covers the school (proficiency comes from state tests, tuition from private schools, SAT/ACT from Niche users); empty means Niche printed nothing.

How can I use Niche data?

• 🧑‍💼 EdTech and school-supply sales - every private high school in a state under a tuition cap, with website and phone.
• 🏡 Real-estate agents and relocation services - district grades, area grades and member schools for a ZIP or county.
• 🎓 Admissions consultants - shortlists of schools by grade, SAT/ACT range and ratio.
• 📊 Education researchers and journalists - rankings, proficiency and graduation rate across a state.
• 📈 School marketing teams - track your rank and grade against nearby schools with monitor mode.
• 🏫 College counselors - acceptance rate, net price and earnings for colleges in a state.

How much does it cost to scrape Niche?

Pay per result. $0.0049 per school, district or college delivered. The full profile adds $0.0059 per row it is read for. Stats on every row are free, and there is no start fee.

Rows	Without profile	With full profile
10	$0.049	$0.108
100	$0.49	$1.08
1,000	$4.90	$10.80

Filtered rows, duplicates, unchanged monitor rows and URLs that are not on Niche are never charged. Set a maximum charge on the run and the Actor stops exactly at it.

Integrations, API, scheduling & MCP

• Schedule it in Apify Console (daily, weekly) and use monitor mode to get only new or changed schools.
• Send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier or n8n, or trigger a webhook when a run finishes.
• API: start runs and read the dataset with the Apify API or the apify-client package for Python or JavaScript.
• AI agents: use the Actor as a tool through the Apify MCP server; compact keeps the rows small.

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Limits & empty runs

• Niche returns 25 schools per search page; maxResults decides how many pages are read.
• A college has no phone on Niche. Graduate schools and towns are not searchable lists here; graduate-school profile URLs work.
• The profile shows the 3 newest reviews; deeper review history is not read.
• Niche protects its site against automated traffic. The Actor never answers a human check; when Niche refuses a route the run moves to another one, and if Niche refuses every route the run stops with what it has and says so in the status.
• A location or filter Niche does not recognise is reported as "rejected by Niche" in the run summary, not charged.

❓ FAQ

How much does Niche Schools Scraper cost?

$0.0049 per row, plus $0.0059 for a row with the full profile. 100 schools cost $0.49.

How many schools can Niche Schools Scraper return?

Every school Niche ranks for your search: 126,642 schools nationally, 10,789 in Texas and 553 in Austin when we measured in October 2026. Use maxResults to cap a run.

Can Niche Schools Scraper get school phone numbers and addresses?

Yes, with Full profile on: phone, street address and ZIP for schools and districts (4 of 5 rows in our test; colleges have no phone on Niche).

Can I filter Niche schools by type, tuition or religion?

Yes. Every filter in the Filters section is Niche's own and is applied by Niche, so you only pay for matching schools.

Does Niche Schools Scraper cover school districts and colleges?

Yes: pick "Best school districts" or one of the three college lists, or paste district and college profile URLs.

Can I monitor Niche rankings on a schedule?

Yes. Turn on monitor mode and schedule the Actor; each run delivers only new schools and schools whose rank or overall grade changed, with the previous values.

Can I use Niche Schools Scraper with the Apify API?

Yes - see the API tab for Python, JavaScript and HTTP examples.

Can Niche Schools Scraper run through an MCP server?

Yes, through the Apify MCP server, so Claude, Cursor or another AI agent can call it as a tool.

Do I need a Niche account, cookies or an API key?

No. The Actor reads public Niche pages and data.

Why did my run return no results?

The location or filter combination matched no school on Niche (the run summary says "no results"), or Niche did not recognise a location. Try "City, ST", a county or a state.

Your feedback

Found a bug or need a field? Open an issue on the Issues tab and we will look at it.

Niche Schools Scraper is not affiliated with Niche.com.