Connecticut Schools Shine As Second Best In The Nation

A new study ranking the best and worst school systems across all 50 states in the US has listed Connecticut as the second best for 2025.

Connecticut - Home of Yale University, a few of the most elite boarding schools in the world, and minds brilliant enough to instruct the next generation of geniuses that will walk the earth. It's not an accident, according to a new study by WalletHub.com, Connecticut has the second-best school system in the country for 2025.

How Did WalletHub.com arrive at it's rankings?

In order to determine which school systems were best or worst WalletHub.com compared to 50 states and DC across two key dimensions - Quality and Safety. Those numbers were further evaluated using 32 key metrics, such as Blue-Ribbon schools per capita, graduation rates, dropout rates, test, ACT, and SAT scores, violent incident and drug use rates, bullying rates, disciplinary rates, and presence of SRO's among the 32.

Connecticut almost won, we have the second-best ACT scores in the US for 2025, 6.6% of our public schools are in the top 700 nationally, as well as the third highest share of students who received a 3 or higher on the AP exam, and the 8th best student to teacher ratio in the country. Connecticut has the lowest prevalence of illegal drugs on school property in the US, and the 6th lowest share of students who have carried any type of weapon on school property.

The only state ranked higher than Connecticut for 2025 is our northern neighbor Massachusetts. Connecticut ranked as second best while New Jersey was #3. Rouding out the Top 5 best were Virginia and New Hampshire. The worst? Oklahoma and New Mexico.