SSNCT

The Small School National Championship Tournament is a national championship for the nation's top small schools held by NAQT. There are two divisions: the Traditional Public Schools Division is for ordinary (non-magnet) public schools with no more than 500 students in their top three grades (up through 12), and the Open Division is for all schools that have no more than 350 students in their top three grades and are not eligible for the Traditional Public School Division. This policy is designed to allow for parity of competition between schools with fewer resources and funding, though the efficacy of this has sometimes been called into question.

Since 2017, there has been a Very Small Schools ranking within the Traditional Public Schools Division, for schools with no more than 300 students in their top three grades (up through 12). Such schools play with the rest of the Traditional Public Schools Division, but have separate playoffs (if necessary) to determine trophies within that group. There is no analogue of this in the Open Division.

At the 2013 HSNCT and earlier HSNCTs, Small School playoffs were held for Small Schools who had been eliminated from the overall playoffs, with the Small School Champion title awarded on that basis. The first few incarnations of the SSNCT had different structures: the 2014 through 2016 tournaments had only one division, for schools with no more than 500 students in grades 10–12 and inclusive of charter (but not private or magnet) schools, and the 2017 tournament had a Charter & Private Schools Division instead of the Open Division (with the main difference being the lack of any place for small magnet schools).

Qualification for the SSNCT is separate from, but similar to, qualification for the HSNCT.

Year	Location	First	Second	Third	Field size
2014	Minneapolis, MN	Hallsville	AMSA	Harmony Science-North Austin	50
2015	Atlanta, GA	Harmony Science-North Austin	Hallsville	Glasgow	60
2016	Rosemont, IL	AMSA	Macomb	Lehigh Valley	80

Traditional Public Schools Division (since 2017)

Year	Location	First	Second	Third	VSS Champion	VSS Runner-Up	VSS Third Place	Field size
2017	Rosemont, IL	Glasgow	Danville	Camp Hill	Camp Hill	Raceland-Worthington	Hallsville	96
2018	Rosemont, IL	Glasgow A	Ottawa Hills A	Williamsville	Ottawa Hills A	Hallsville	Cooperstown	96
2019	Rosemont, IL	Glasgow A	Middlesboro	Ottawa Hills A	Middlesboro	Ottawa Hills A	Bridge Creek	80
2021	Online	Westmont	Macomb	Southside A	Westmont	Fair Grove	Cooperstown/Pettisville/Ottawa Hills/Indian Lake	40
2022	Rosemont, IL	Glasgow	Herscher	Garfield	Garfield	Fair Grove	Westmont	55
2023	Rosemont, IL	Fair Grove	Southwestern A	Woodland	Fair Grove	Southwestern A	Garfield	77
2024	Rosemont, IL	Hastings	West Point	Hallsville	West Iron County	Cottondale	Morris A	88

Open Division (since 2017)

Year	Location	First	Second	Third	Field Size
2017 (Charter & Private Schools)	Rosemont, IL	St. Mark's School of Texas	Miami Valley	St. Martin's Episcopal	30
2018	Rosemont, IL	Early College at Guilford	Friends Select	Miami Valley A	64
2019	Rosemont, IL	Miami Valley A	Parish Episcopal	High Tech A	72
2021	Online	St. Mark's School of Texas	Miami Valley A	TAG Magnet	50
2022	Rosemont, IL	St. Mark's School of Texas A	BASIS McLean A	St. Mark's School of Texas B	55
2023	Rosemont, IL	Basis McLean A	Alabama Cyber Tech	St. Mark's School of Texas A	55
2024	Rosemont, IL	St. Mark's School of Texas A	Alabama Cyber Tech A	St. Mark's School of Texas B	55

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