Durham, Middlefield Middle Schools Rank Among Top 100 in Connecticut

By BRIAN MCCREADY (Patch Staff) and Jaimie Cura; originally published on June 17

Seems like there’s a list for everything these days. We’ve seen rankings regarding the best high schools in the country and state, and more recently, the top elementary schools in Connecticut and the United States.

Now, the rankings of Connecticut’s top 100 middle schools are published, courtesy of Niche.com.

Niche says it ranked 19,710 middle schools nationwide based on key student statistics and 4.6 million opinions from 280,000 students and parents.

Fairfield County dominates the top 10, monopolizing the top 8 positions as Saxe Middle School in New Canaan was deemed to be No.1, followed by Bedford Middle School in Westport, and East Ridge Middle School in Ridgefield.

The first non-Fairfield county middle school to be ranked was the Henry James Memorial School in Simsbury, which ranked No. 9 overall.

For New Haven County, the top ranked middle schools both belonged to Amity Regional Middle School in Bethany at No. 11 and Amity Regional Middle School in Orange at No. 12.

Frank Ward Strong School, Durham, CT

• Ranking: #63
• Academics Grade: A-
• District Overall Experience Grade: A-
• Teachers’ Grade: A
• Student Culture & Diversity Grade: C-

Middlefield Memorial School, Middlefield, CT

• Ranking: #86
• Academics Grade: A-
• District Overall Experience Grade: A-
• Teachers’ Grade: A-
• Student Culture & Diversity Grade: C-

Click here to read Niche.com’s full list of top 100 middle schools in Connecticut.

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