Connecticut's Top 100 Public High Schools: New Rankings Released

Connecticut may have some issues, a multi-billion budget deficit, failing transportation, high tax rate, and a reputation as being unfriendly to businesses. But there is one thing we have going for us and that is a stellar education system. Connecticut routinely ranks near the very top of the best educated states and Niche.com has just released its 2019 list of the 100 best public high schools in Connecticut.

Once again, Fairfield and Hartford county high schools dominated the top 10 in Connecticut with only Amity High School in Woodbridge representing another county, according to Niche.com.

And if you're curious, the No. 1 public high school in America is the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. Connecticut's top entrant is Staples High School in Westport, which is the 125th best public high school in America, according to Niche.com.

Niche, a website for researching schools, used a variety of factors, including SAT/ACT scores, student-teacher ratio, the quality of colleges students consider and reviews from students and parents for its ranking. Niche assigns a standardized score for each factor, which is then weighted before an overall score is calculated for each school district. The overall scores are again standardized and some districts are disqualified from receiving a final letter grade if there isn't enough data. (You can sign up for a free newsletter and real-time news alerts from over 100 different Connecticut communities here.)

Here is the list of the best public high schools in Connecticut:

1. Staples High School In Westport

2. New Canaan High School

3. Darien High School

4. Weston High School

5. Glastonbury High School

6. Wilton High School

7. Greenwich High School

8. Amity Regional High School In Woodbridge

9. Simsbury High School

10. Ridgefield High School

11. Conard High School In West Hartford

12. Avon High School

13. Farmington High School

14. Joel Barlow High School In Redding

15. Daniel Hand High School In Madison

16. Hall High School In West Hartford

17. Fairfield Warde High School

18. East Lyme High School

19. The Academy of Information Technology

20. Fairfield Ludlowe High School

21. Newtown High School

22. Guilford High School

23. Trumbull High School

24. Lyme-Old Lyme High School

25. Connecticut International Baccalaureate Academy

26. Masuk High School In Monroe

27. Marine Science Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut

28. Academy of Aerospace & Engineering In Windsor

29. Cheshire High School

30. Rham High School

31. Canton High School

32. Bethel High School

33. Brookfield High School

34. Pomperaug Regional High School

35. South Windsor High School

36. Suffield High School

37. Old Saybrook Senior High School

38. E. O. Smith High School

39. North Haven High School

40. Granby Memorial High School

41. Shepaug Valley School

42. Haddam-Killingworth High School

43. Valley Regional High School

44. East Hampton High School

45. Waterford High School

46. Tolland High School

47. University High School of Science and Engineering

48. Wethersfield High School

49. Bristol Central High School

50. Litchfield High School

51. Coginchaug Regional High School

52. Stonington High School

53. Mark T. Sheehan High School In Wallingford

54. Northwestern Regional High School

55. Housatonic Valley Regional High School

56. Rocky Hill High School

57. Nonnewaug High School

58. Brien McMahon High School In Norwalk

59. Southington High School

60. Woodstock Academy

61. Westhill High School

62. Cromwell High School

63. Ledyard High School

64. Lewis S. Mills High School

65. Robert E. Fitch High School

66. Ellington High School

67. Aerospace/Hydrospace Engineering & Physical Sciences at the Fairchild Wheeler Campus

68. Branford High School

69. Woodland Regional High School

70. Coventry High School

71. Bolton High School

72. Newington High School

73. New Milford High School

74. Westbrook High School

75. The Morgan School In Clinton

76. East Granby High School

77. Engineering - Science University Magnet School

78. Oxford High School19 Best Public Elementary Schools

79. Arts at the Capitol Theater Magnet School

80. Berlin High School

81. Middletown High School

82. Windsor High School

83. Bacon Academy

84. Joseph A. Foran High School In Milford

85. Lyman Hall High School In Wallingford

86. Jonathan Law High School In Milford

87. Lyman Memorial High School

88. Three Rivers Middle College Magnet School

89. Somers High School

90. Plainville High School

91. New Fairfield High School

92. Wheeler High School

93. Montville High School

94. Portland High School

95. Shelton High School

96. Wamogo Regional High School

97. Seymour High School

98. Manchester High School

99. Stafford High School

100. Wolcott High School

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