High schools that produce college football players
170 programs, ranked by what their recruits actually became rather than by how they were rated coming out: 603 NFL draft picks between them, from every college signing tracked since 2010.
5,852 high schools have sent a player to a college program since 2010. These 170 are the pipelines with enough history to rank; every one of the rest is listed on its own state's page.
Find or rank a high school
170 of 170 programs, ranked by NFL draft picks.
Where a recruit went to high school tells you nothing his rating didn't
The premise of every recruiting site is that some programs develop players. We tested it on 29,802 college signees from 5,852 high schools (2010–2020 classes, 6.9% of whom were drafted). Give every recruit a draft probability from his composite rating and position, add them up per school, and compare each school's real total to it. If schools mattered, the spread across schools would exceed what coin flips at those probabilities produce.
1.00× would mean a school explains nothing its recruits' ratings did not already contain, and the last column is how often a season with no school effect at all still produced a number this big. Not one threshold separates from chance — the spread across schools is what coin flips at those probabilities produce, at every size we can test. No individual school survives correcting for the 170 tested here either. So these pages rank schools by what their players became, and none of them by how much they “beat” a rating.
Tracked recruits
The commits we follow individually — a model projection for each, plus a scouting report sourced to the people who filed it.
Start from a state
Every state with enough college signings to measure — the schools with pages are a fraction of what these list. Ohio has 95 programs with an outcome and five with a page of their own.
The number beside each school is its NFL draft picks. Descriptive hindsight, not a forecast. Draft outcomes cover all positions (2010–2020 signing classes, each with the full five drafts behind it); the college-contributor count covers offense-skill positions (2010–21), where we have production data.