West Hartford Middle Schools Ranked Among Top 50 in Connecticut

There is seemingly a list for everything. We’ve seen rankings on the best high schools in the country and the state, and more recently, the top elementary schools in Connecticut and the United States.

So, it was only a matter of time before we’d see a ranking of the top middle schools in the state.

And Niche.com recently did just that, ranking the top middle schools in the county and the top 100 middle schools in Connecticut.

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 in the state, 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.

West Hartford has three middle schools and Bristow Middle School landed at No. 35 in Connecticut with an overall Niche grade of A and 94 percent of its students are proficient in reading and math.

King Philip Middle School was ranked No. 41 and received an overall Niche grade of A and 92 percent of its students are proficient in reading and math.

Sedgwick Middle School was ranked No. 46 and received an A and 90 percent of its students are proficient in reading and math.

To read Niche.com’s full rankings and report, click here.

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