See Where Weston, Redding and Easton Middle Schools Rates Among Nation's Best

By Wendy Mitchell and Brian McCready

There really is a list for everything it seems. We’ve seen rankings regarding 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 of Connecticut.

And Niche.com recently did just that as it ranked 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, monopolizing the top 8 positions.

Weston ranked No. 5 in the state of Connecticut. Its high ranking was due to low student/teacher ratio, high teacher salaries and retention rate. Click here to read more.

Redding and Easton’s rankings were surprising. John Read Middle School in Redding was ranked 230 of 276 in the state for public middle schools. Factors for the low ranking included not enough diversity in the school and only 3% reduced lunch rates. Click here to read more.

Helen Keller Middle School in Easton was also ranked in the bottom, coming in at No. 264 or 276 schools due tothe same factors. Click here to read more.

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.

Do you agree with these findings? Tell us in the comments.

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

Editor’s note: A previous article stated Weston Middle School ranked No. 5 in the country when it ranked No. 5 in Connecticut. Patch apologizes for the error.