Area Schools Ranked Top in CT, Nation

Niche.com's annual rankings of the top schools in the country ranked Hartford-area schools as some of the best in the state and in the country. See below for full rankings:

1. Choate Rosemary Hall

2. The Hotchkiss School

3. The Loomis Chaffee School

4. The Taft School

5. Pomfret School

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.