College Ready? These CT Districts Are Your Best Bet

Editor’s Note: Patch is re-running this popular story in case you missed it the first time around.

Written by  BRIAN MCCREADY (Patch Staff)

As high school students across Connecticut graduate or are about to graduate, it’s never too soon to look at how school districts in Connecticut prepare students for college.

Niche.com, which analyzes schools across the country on a myriad of factors, has studied which school districts in the country, and in Connecticut, are the best at preparing students for college success.

According to Niche.com, the rankings are based on “graduation rates, AP enrollment, SAT/ACT scores, and the quality of colleges that students consider.”

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Niche.com has concluded the top 5 school districts in the national for preparing students for college are: Bloomfield Hills School in Michigan, Palo Alto Unified School District in California, Scarsdale Union Free School District in New York, Princeton Public School in Princeton, New Jersey and the Edgemont Union Free School District in Greenburgh, New York.

Four Connecticut school districts crack the top 100 nationwide, including Westport at No. 33, Greenwich at No. 48, New Canaan at No. 64, and Wilton at No. 65.

Here is the top 100 according to Niche.com. (Click on the hyperlink to read about your local school district and why it was ranked where it was).

1 Westport School District
2 Greenwich School District
3 New Canaan School District
4 Wilton School District
5 Simsbury School District
6 Darien School District
7 Ridgefield School District
8 Weston School District
9 Amity Regional School District No. 5 in Bethany, Orange and Woodbridge
10 Avon School District
11 Glastonbury School District
12 West Hartford School District
13 Madison School District
14 Fairfield School District
15 Farmington School District
16 Guilford Public Schools
17 Cheshire Public Schools
18 Newtown School District
19 East Lyme School District
20 Branford School District
21 Pomperaug Regional School District No. 15 in Middlebury and Southbury
22 Trumbull Public Schools
23 South Windsor School District
24 Regional School District No. 18 in Lyme
25 Monroe School District
26 Stamford School District
27 Brookfield School District
28 Groton School District
29 Old Saybrook School District
30 Litchfield Public Schools
31 Canton School District
32 New Fairfield School District
33 Regional School District No. 4 in Chester
34 Bethel School District
35 Rocky Hill School District
36 Southington School District
37 Norwalk School District
38 Cromwell School District
39 Regional School District No. 17 in Haddam
40 Danbury School District
41 Bolton School District
42 Regional School District No. 8 in Hebron
43 Suffield School District
44 Stonington School District
45 East Granby School District
46 Windsor School District
47 Granby School District
48 Regional School District No. 13 in Middlefield
49 Wallingford School District
50 Tolland School District
51 Hamden School District
52 Ellington School District
53 North Branford School District
54 Middletown School District
55 Regional School District No. 14 in Woodbury
56 Wethersfield School District
57 Milford School District
58 Newington School District
59 Waterford School District
60 Ledyard School District
61 Regional School District No. 6 in Goshen
62 Regional School District No. 10 Harwinton
63 Northwestern Regional School District No. 7Barkhamsted
64 North Haven School District
65 New Milford School District
66 Somers School District
67 Vernon School District
68 Torrington School District
69 East Hampton School District
70 Plainville School District
71 Killingly School District
72 Manchester School District
73 East Haddam School District
74 Wolcott School District
75 Oxford School District
76 Stratford School District
77 Ansonia School District
78 Shelton School District
79 North Stonington School District
80 East Hartford School District
81 Westbrook School District
82 Montville School District
83 Colchester School District
84 Plymouth School District
85 Berlin School District
86 Windsor Locks School District
87 Bristol School District
88 New Haven School District
89 Coventry School District
90 Hartford School District
91 Seymour School District
92 Clinton School District
93 West Haven School District
94 Lebanon School District
95 New London School District
96 Naugatuck School District
97 Griswold School District
98 Thomaston School District
99 Derby School District
100 Regional School District No. 16 in Prospect

Read the full Niche.com report here.