25 Best Connecticut High Schools: U.S. News Rankings 2016

U.S. News and World Report in a just released report ranks 25 Connecticut public high schools among nation's top 1,000.

Brian McCready, Patch Staff

Posted Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 9:48 am ET|Updated Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:06 am ET

U.S. News & World Report has just released its top public high schools list nationwide and the good news is 25 Connecticut high schools make the top 1,000 list.

A total of 21,000 public high schools across the country were ranked based on students performance on state assessments and graduation rates and how well prepared they were for college.

For more on their methodology see here.

Nationwide the top 5 list includes: No. 1, Schools for the Talented and Gifted, Texas, No. 2, BASIS Scottsdale, Arizona, No. 3, BASIS Tucson North, Arizona, No. 4, School of Science and Engineering, Texas, and No. 5, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia.

Connecticut had two high schools among the top 100 in the country and 25 among the top 1,000. (Click on the hyperlink for more information on why each school was chosen.)

No. 40 Connecticut IB Academy East Hartford

No. 82 Academy of Aerospace and Engineering Hartford

No. 105 Amistad Academy New Haven

No. 184 Weston High School Weston

No. 235 Ridgefield High School Ridgefield

No. 309 Conard High School West Hartford

No. 386 Wilton High School Wilton

No. 429 Lyme-Old Lyme High School Old Lyme

No. 437 Simsbury High School Simsbury

No. 468 Greenwich High School Greenwich

No. 483 Darien High School Darien

No. 546 Farmington High School Farmington