The Best of the Best High Schools in Connecticut

US News and World Reports recently released their intense cumulative study on the best high schools in the United States.The methodology used by US News to rank all of the nation's high schools were based on key principles:

1. How well the school did to serve the educational needs of ALL of its students, not just the smartest ones.

2. Schools had to produce measurable academic outcomes showing it was educating its student body across a wide range of performance indicators.

3. What percentage of the student body actually graduated.

Out of 19,168 public schools throughout the nation, only 6,918 schools met the criteria for an actual ranking.

                           THE TOP 10 CONNECTICUT RANKED HIGH SCHOOLS 

1. Connecticut 1B Academy - East Hartford

2. Academy of Aerospace and Engineering - Hartford

3. Amistad Academy - New Haven

4. Weston High - Weston

5. Ridgefield High - Ridgefield

6. Conrad High - West Hartford

7. Wilton High - Wilton

8. Lyme-Old Lyme High - Lyme

9. Simsbury High - Simsbury

10. Greenwich High - Greenwich

**Here are some of the greater Danbury area schools that were ranked in the Top 50.

Joel Barlow -15

Pomperaug -19

Brookfield - 26 

**Here are the greater Danbury area high schools that didn't score high enough to make the cut: Danbury, New Fairfield, Bethel, Newtown, New Milford, and Oxford,

**Connecticut High Schools that ranked nationally out of 19,138 schools:

Weston High School -184

Ridgefield High School - 235

Wilton High - 386

Lyme-Old Lyme High - 428

Greenwich High - 468

Darien High - 483

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