Ok, it appears Newbury Park is widely considered the best high school cross country program in the country. However, looking at the Milesplit rankings, Newbury Park is the #1 boys and #5 girls team. Niwot has the #2 girls team and #3 boys team. Niwot has a slightly better average ranking.
Looking historically, Newbury was #6 in 2018 and #1 in 2019 on the boys side, and unranked in 2018 and #17 in 2019 on the girls side. Niwot was unranked in 2018 (with an individual qualifier) and unranked in 2019 (with an individual qualifier) on the boys side and #5 in 2018 and #3 in 2019 on the girl's side.
Niwot has 1,178 students with 83 combined boys and girls on the cross country team and Newbury has 2,430 students with a combined 44 boys and girls on the team.
What program is better and why? Discuss.