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New Canaan High Cafeteria Ranked Best in CT
Niche.com ranked the top high school cafeterias in the country and on a statewide level. Check out how your high school did.
There are many more important things to consider when examining the effectiveness of a school and the education it provides your children than the quality of the cafeteria and food being prepared for your children.
But, the little things can definitely contribute to how happy your child is at school and Niche.com has ranked tens of thousands of public high school cafeterias in the United States to determine, which ones are the best.
They also did a statewide ranking. Nationally, Connecticut had four public high schools crack the top 100 list.
The top 5 public high school cafeterias in the United States are: William T. McFatter Technical Center in Florida, Itineris Early College High School in Utah, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Massachusetts, Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Illinois, and High Tech High School in New Jersey.
Connecticut schools that cracked the top 100 were New Canaan High School at No. 22 nationally, Weston High School, No. 86, Coginchaug Regional High School in Durham, No. 92, and Staples High School in Westport, No. 94.
One reviewer for William T. McFatter Technical Center wrote, “Food was extravagant at McFatter Technical Center. Everyday students from the culinary department made specials such as salmon w/ wild rice and vegetables or chicken breast w/ quinoa and vegetables et cetera. There was also a place called "La Piazza" which offered a variety of foods such as pizzas, yogurts, drinks, soups, sandwiches, desserts, chips, muffins, cakes and everything was made fresh daily. Another food option was "burger house" where burgers and fries were offered.”
For Connecticut, here are the top 100 public high school cafeterias in the state, which is based on parent and student surveys and the total expenditure per student, according to Nice.com. (Click on each hyperlink to read more about each school.)
- 1 New Canaan High School in New Canaan
- 2 Weston High School in Weston
- 3 Coginchaug Regional High School in Durham
- 4 Staples High School in Westport
- 5 Wilton High School in Wilton
- 6 Killingly High School in Killingly
- 7 Valley Regional High School in Deep River
- 8 Simsbury High School in Simsbury
- 9 Waterford High School in Waterford
- 10 Connecticut River Academy in East Hartford
- 11 Glastonbury High School in Glastonbury Center
- 12 Fitch Senior High School in Poquonock Bridge
- 13 Woodland Regional High School in Beacon Falls
- 14 Greenwich High School in Greenwich
- 15 Middletown High School in Middletown
- 16 Bolton High School in Bolton
- 17 Lyme-Old Lyme High School in Old Lyme
- 18 Masuk High School in Monroe
- 19 Newtown High School in Newtown
- 20 Ridgefield High School in Ridgefield
- 21 Daniel Hand High School in Madison
- 22 Act Magnet School (Arts at the Capitol Theater) - in Willimantic
- 23 Bethel High School in Bethel
- 24 Joel Barlow High School in Redding
- 25 Suffield High School in Suffield
- 26 Darien High School in Darien
- 27 Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge
- 28 Seymour High School in Seymour
- 29 Rham High School in Hebron
- 30 Trumbull High School in Trumbull
- 31 Hamden High School in Hamden
- 32 The Academy of Information Technology in Stamford
- 33 North Haven High School in North Haven
- 34 Terryville High School in Terryville
- 35 Woodstock Academy in Woodstock
- 36 Haddam-Killingworth High School in Haddam
- 37 Manchester High School in Manchester
- 38 Norwich Technical High School in Norwich
- 39 Bulkeley High School Upper School in Hartford
- 40 Bristol Central High School in Bristol
- 41 East Lyme High School in East Lyme
- 42 Fairfield Warde High School in Fairfield
- 43 Norwich Free Academy in Norwich
- 44 Canton High School in Collinsville
- 45 Farmington High School in Farmington
- 46 Cooperative High School in New Haven
- 47 Bloomfield High School in Bloomfield
- 48 Old Saybrook Senior High School in Old Saybrook
- 49 Plainville High School in Plainville
- 50 Parish Hill High School in Chaplin
- 51 High School in Hartford
- 52 Westbrook High School in Westbrook
- 53 New Fairfield High School in New Fairfield
- 54 Southington High School in Southington
- 55 E. O. Smith High School in Storrs
- 56 Avon High School in Avon
- 57 East Haven High School in East Haven
- 58 Thomaston High School in Thomaston
- 59 Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington
- 60 Hall High School in West Hartford
- 61 Sports & Medical Sciences Academy in Hartford
- 62 South Windsor High School in South Windsor
- 63 Watertown High School in Watertown
- 64 Conard High School in West Hartford
- 65 Norwalk High School in Norwalk
- 66 Academy of Aerospace & Engineering in Hartford
- 67 Northwestern Regional High School in Winsted
- 68 Oxford High School in Oxford
- 69 Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven
- 70 Harding High School in Bridgeport
- 71 Wamogo Regional High School in Litchfield
- 72 Metropolitan Learning Center in Bloomfield
- 73 Stonington High School in Pawcatuck
- 74 Cheshire High School in Cheshire
- 75 North Branford High School in North Branford
- 76 Joseph A. Foran High School in Milford
- 77 Ansonia High School in Ansonia
- 78 Nathan Hale-Ray High School in East Haddam
- 79 East Hartford High School East Hartford
- 80 A. I. Prince Technical High School in Hartford
- 81 Waterbury Arts Magnet School (High) in Waterbury
- 82 Griswold High School in Griswold
- 83 Stafford High School Stafford Springs
- 84 Amistad Academy in New Haven
- 85 Ella T. Grasso Southeastern Technical High School in Poquonock Bridge
- 86 New Milford High School in New Milford
- 87 Tolland High School in Tolland
- 88 West Haven High School in West Haven
- 89 H. C. Wilcox Technical High School in Meriden
- 90 Fairfield Ludlowe High School in Fairfield
- 91 Hphs Nursing Academy in Hartford
- 92 University High School in Hartford
- 93 Metropolitan Business High School in New Haven
- 94 Wethersfield High School in Wethersfield
- 95 Lyman Hall High School in Wallingford
- 96 E. C. Goodwin Technical High School in New Britain
- 97 The Gilbert School in Winsted, CT
- 98 Hill Regional Career High School in New Haven
- 99 Newington High School in Newington
- 100 Lyman Memorial High School in Lebanon
- See other top school rankings stories:
- 100 Best School Districts in Connecticut 2016
- Connecticut's Best Private High Schools for 2016
- Connecticut's Top 100 Elementary Schools for 2016 | Patch
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