The 15 US suburbs with the best public schools, where teachers are well-reviewed and test scores are high

West Lake Hills, a suburb of Austin, has some of the top-ranked public schools in Texas.Getty Images/ Arie Quick / EyeEm

• More and more city dwellers are moving to the suburbs during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Niche, a comprehensive guide to neighborhoods and schools, released its annual ranking of best places to live based on the cost of living, crime levels, quality of schools, and more.
• Business Insider rounded up the 15 suburbs — or neighborhoods located outside of principal cities with populations of at least 1,000 — with the best public school systems, as selected by Niche.
• Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, dominate the list, making up eight of the top 15.
• New York, Texas, and Pennsylvania, and Ohio also have some of the top suburbs for public schools.

Since the coronavirus outbreak hit the US in March, people have been fleeing dense cities for small towns and suburbs.

The pandemic has accelerated an exodus from cities, as Business Insider's Libertina Brandt recently reported. The New York Post reported in June that suburban houses in Connecticut and upstate New York that had lingered on the market for months or even years were being snatched up during the coronavirus pandemic. And between March 1 and May 1, about 420,000 New Yorkers left the city, largely for the suburbs of Connecticut and upstate New York, as well as the Hamptons, The New York Times reported.

When people are deciding which suburb might be the best fit for them, public school rankings are often a top consideration.

In March, Niche, a comprehensive guide to neighborhoods and schools, released its annual ranking of best places to live based on the cost of living, crime levels, quality of schools, and more. Niche also releases a ranking of suburbs with the best public schools based on state test scores, graduation rates, SAT/ACT scores, teacher quality, and student and parent reviews. Niche analyzes data primarily from the US Census and Department of Education.

Here are the 15 US suburbs with the best public schools, according to Niche.