Cheshire High School Named One of the Top Public High Schools in the Nation by Newsweek

CHESHIRE, CT — Newsweek’s annual list of the top public high schools in America for 2016 that was released on Thursday reveals good news once again for Cheshire High School, which ranks among the nation's top 500 public high schools.

Cheshire, which was also named to the list in 2014, was ranked No. 374 in the latest rankings. Cheshire was No. 401 in the top 500 in 2014.

This year 16 Connecticut public high schools made the top 500 list with two cracking the top 100, according to Newsweek. Weston High School ranks as the state’s top public high school in 39th place.

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• Newsweek’s Top Public High Schools 2016: How Connecticut Schools Ranked

The second Connecticut public high school to make the top 100 list is Wilton High School at No. 56. No other public school in Connecticut made the top 100 list in 2016, but 14 other schools were ranked between 100-500, according to Newsweek.

The rest of that list includes:

Avon High School, No. 116, Ridgefield High School, No. 151, East Lyme High School, No. 224, Haddam-Killingworth, No. 267, Farmington High School, 286, Pomperaug High School, No. 325, Newtown High School, No. 339, South Windsor High School, No. 348, Litchfield High School, No. 364, Cheshire High School, No. 374, East Hampton High School, No. 384, Valley Regional High School, No. 389, Woodstock Academy, No. 407, and Lyme-Old Lyme High School, No. 471.

And if you’re curious about the national list, five of the nation’s top 12 public high schools are located in New Jersey.

The top public high school in the country is Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia, followed by Academy for Math, Science and Engineering in New Jersey, and Stuyvesant High School in New York.