Best Cities in Connecticut for Schools

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Rank (of 182)	City	# Elementary Schools	# Middle Schools	# High Schools	# Alt. Schools	# Private Schools*	Rank score (2024)	Rank (2023)	Rank change from 2023
1^st	New Canaan	3	1	1	0	3	0.99	2	1
2^nd	Riverside	3	1	0	0	0	0.979	1	1
3^rd	Weston	2	1	1	0	0	0.969	4	1
4^th	Westport	8	2	1	0	4	0.96	9	5
5^th	Old Greenwich	1	0	0	0	0	0.96	3	2
6^th	Darien	5	1	1	0	1	0.955	6
7^th	Ridgefield	8	3	1	0	3	0.949	8	1
8^th	Madison	4	1	1	0	4	0.947	16	8
9^th	Wilton	2	1	1	0	4	0.944	14	5
10^th	Redding	1	1	1	0	1	0.939	19	9
11^th	Bethany	1	1	0	0	1	0.935	27	16
12^th	Chester	1	0	0	0	1	0.932	21	9
13^th	West Simsbury	1	0	0	0	1	0.928	13
14^th	Simsbury	2	1	1	0	3	0.922	26	12
15^th	Stonington	1	0	0	0	1	0.913	15
16^th	Old Lyme	1	1	1	1	0	0.91	20	4
17^th	Sherman	1	0	0	0	0	0.902	10	7
18^th	Easton	1	1	0	0	1	0.895	5	13
19^th	Canaan	1	0	0	0	0	0.888	61	42
20^th	Cheshire	6	1	3	0	3	0.887	22	2
21^st	East Berlin	1	0	0	0	0	0.887	30	9
22^nd	Farmington	3	2	1	0	1	0.887	25	3
23^rd	Trumbull	9	2	4	2	5	0.885	23
24^th	Unionville	2	0	0	0	0	0.881	29	5
25^th	Lakeville	2	1	0	0	3	0.88	57	32
26^th	Weatogue	1	0	0	0	0	0.879	11	15
27^th	Higganum	2	0	1	0	1	0.876	12	15
28^th	Woodbridge	1	0	1	0	3	0.859	18	10
29^th	South Glastonbury	3	0	0	0	0	0.856	32	3
30^th	Guilford	4	2	1	0	0	0.848	38	8
31^st	Washington	0	0	1	0	2	0.847	52	21
32^nd	Southport	1	0	0	0	2	0.845	17	15
33^rd	Storrs Mansfield	0	1	1	0	0	0.844	55	22
34^th	Tolland	2	1	1	0	0	0.843	41	7
35^th	Tariffville	1	0	0	0	0	0.837	69	34
36^th	West Suffield	0	0	1	0	0	0.834	59	23
37^th	Ellington	3	1	1	0	0	0.831	40	3
38^th	Fairfield	11	3	2	0	9	0.831	37	1
39^th	Monroe	3	1	1	0	0	0.83	39
40^th	Sandy Hook	2	0	1	0	0	0.83	35	5
41^st	Orange	4	1	0	0	6	0.821	43	2
42^nd	Southbury	2	1	1	0	0	0.82	51	9
43^rd	Pawcatuck	1	0	1	0	1	0.818	31	12
44^th	Newtown	3	2	1	0	3	0.816	33	11
45^th	Goshen	1	0	0	0	0	0.809		(n/a)
46^th	Lyme	1	0	0	0	0	0.803	28	18
47^th	Canton	1	2	1	0	1	0.798	45	2
48^th	Coventry	4	1	2	0	0	0.796	24	24
49^th	Pomfret Center	1	0	0	0	0	0.793	34	15
50^th	Brookfield	1	1	1	0	4	0.787	90	40
51^st	North Stonington	1	0	1	0	1	0.782	36	15
52^nd	Westbrook	1	1	1	0	0	0.781	7	45
53^rd	Niantic	3	1	2	0	2	0.775	64	11
54^th	Granby	2	1	1	0	0	0.773	50	4
55^th	Marlborough	1	0	0	0	0	0.773	49	6
56^th	East Lyme	2	0	4	0	0	0.772	82	26
57^th	Centerbrook	1	0	0	0	0	0.769	44	13
58^th	Litchfield	2	3	2	0	3	0.763	46	12
59^th	Burlington	1	1	1	0	1	0.76	58	1
60^th	Killingworth	1	1	0	0	0	0.756	42	18
61^st	Plantsville	3	2	0	0	0	0.754	68	7
62^nd	Greenwich	6	2	2	0	10	0.754	74	12
63^rd	Southington	9	2	3	0	2	0.741	71	8
64^th	West Hartford	16	3	4	0	14	0.741	73	9
65^th	Portland	2	2	1	0	0	0.736	78	13
66^th	East Granby	2	1	1	0	0	0.733	63	3
67^th	New Fairfield	2	1	2	0	0	0.733	47	20
68^th	Bolton	1	0	1	0	1	0.731	85	17
69^th	Northford	1	0	1	0	0	0.73	84	15
70^th	Glastonbury	7	2	3	1	1	0.728	65	5
71^st	Wolcott	4	1	1	0	0	0.727	87	16
72^nd	Hebron	2	1	1	0	0	0.726	70	2
73^rd	Beacon Falls	1	0	1	0	0	0.72	76	3
74^th	South Windsor	5	1	1	0	0	0.719	75	1
75^th	Waterford	4	2	1	0	2	0.717	79	4
76^th	Avon	5	2	1	0	4	0.716	103	27
77^th	Berlin	1	1	1	0	0	0.712	77
78^th	Oxford	2	1	1	0	0	0.703	101	23
79^th	Suffield	2	1	1	0	1	0.703	66	13
80^th	Harwinton	1	0	0	0	0	0.702	53	27
81^st	Bethlehem	1	0	0	0	1	0.7	98	17
82^nd	Prospect	2	2	0	0	0	0.698	72	10
83^rd	Somers	1	1	2	0	0	0.697	88	5
84^th	Kensington	1	0	0	0	2	0.692	83	1
85^th	Colchester	2	1	1	0	0	0.685	54	31
86^th	Old Saybrook	1	1	1	0	3	0.683	60	26
87^th	Cos Cob	1	0	0	0	0	0.68	67	20
88^th	Yalesville	2	0	0	0	0	0.678	80	8
89^th	Durham	1	1	1	0	2	0.67	56	33
90^th	Chaplin	1	0	1	0	0	0.662	152	62
91^st	Mansfield Depot	1	0	0	0	1	0.662		(n/a)
92^nd	Rocky Hill	5	1	1	0	0	0.66	81	11
93^rd	East Hampton	2	1	2	0	0	0.653	91	2
94^th	Shelton	7	2	1	0	1	0.648	94
95^th	Bethel	3	1	1	0	2	0.642	89	6
96^th	Lebanon	1	1	1	0	0	0.636	104	8
97^th	Deep River	1	1	1	0	0	0.634	62	35
98^th	Cromwell	2	1	1	0	2	0.633	102	4
99^th	Middlebury	2	1	0	0	1	0.628	100	1
100^th	Quaker Hill	1	0	0	0	1	0.624	105	5
101^st	Mystic	2	1	1	0	0	0.624	96	5
102^nd	Barkhamsted	3	0	0	0	0	0.612	48	54
103^rd	North Haven	5	1	3	0	1	0.611	117	14
104^th	Woodbury	1	1	1	0	0	0.609	86	18
105^th	Moodus	1	1	1	0	0	0.608	115	10
106^th	Branford	4	1	1	0	2	0.604	113	7
107^th	North Branford	1	1	1	0	0	0.604	92	15
108^th	New Hartford	3	1	0	0	1	0.594	106	2
109^th	Clinton	1	1	2	0	0	0.593	111	2
110^th	Newington	4	2	1	0	1	0.585	116	6
111^th	Lisbon	1	0	0	0	0	0.585	99	12
112^th	Willington	1	1	0	0	0	0.576	97	15
113^th	Columbia	1	0	0	0	0	0.576	134	21
114^th	Wethersfield	6	2	1	1	2	0.568	121	7
115^th	Brooklyn	1	1	0	0	1	0.567	126	11
116^th	Oakdale	3	1	1	0	1	0.561	109	7
117^th	Milford	8	3	3	0	8	0.559	125	8
118^th	Winsted	2	2	6	0	1	0.559	108	10
119^th	Plainville	3	1	2	0	2	0.557	122	3
120^th	Seymour	2	1	1	0	0	0.552	119	1
121^st	Vernon	3	1	1	0	0	0.548	118	3
122^nd	Woodstock	1	1	2	0	0	0.545	110	12
123^rd	Middlefield	2	0	0	0	1	0.543	107	16
124^th	Salem	1	0	0	0	0	0.54	95	29
125^th	Canterbury	1	1	0	0	0	0.538	112	13
126^th	Stafford Springs	2	1	1	0	0	0.538	114	12
127^th	Groton	3	1	3	0	1	0.534	124	3
128^th	Vernon Rockville	2	0	1	0	0	0.534	167	39
129^th	Uncasville	1	0	1	0	2	0.525	129
130^th	Preston	1	1	0	0	0	0.515	93	37
131^st	Watertown	1	0	1	0	3	0.513	136	5
132^nd	Wallingford	7	2	3	0	8	0.512	133	1
133^rd	Ledyard	1	0	1	0	0	0.509	135	2
134^th	Thomaston	1	1	1	0	0	0.504	127	7
135^th	Gales Ferry	2	1	0	0	0	0.502	128	7
136^th	Bristol	15	7	4	1	6	0.501	130	6
137^th	North Grosvenordale	1	1	1	0	1	0.491	159	22
138^th	Oakville	2	1	0	0	1	0.49	123	15
139^th	Falls Village	1	0	1	0	0	0.49		(n/a)
140^th	Ashford	1	0	0	0	0	0.473	132	8
141^st	Broad Brook	0	1	0	0	0	0.472	144	3
142^nd	Plainfield	3	1	0	0	0	0.464	139	3
143^rd	Enfield	13	1	4	0	4	0.456	149	6
144^th	Meriden	10	4	5	0	5	0.455	142	2
145^th	West Haven	6	4	2	0	4	0.454	137	8
146^th	Terryville	1	1	1	0	0	0.453	140	6
147^th	Sterling	1	0	0	0	0	0.44	165	18
148^th	New Milford	4	1	2	0	2	0.44	131	17
149^th	Windsor Locks	2	1	2	0	0	0.437	138	11
150^th	East Windsor	1	0	2	0	0	0.402	155	5
151^st	Windsor	5	1	2	0	5	0.398	156	5
152^nd	Stamford	16	5	5	0	17	0.395	145	7
153^rd	Hamden	9	2	4	0	7	0.395	143	10
154^th	Central Village	0	0	1	0	0	0.393		(n/a)
155^th	Norwalk	14	4	5	0	2	0.386	150	5
156^th	North Windham	4	0	0	0	0	0.384	146	10
157^th	Griswold	1	1	1	0	0	0.383	141	16
158^th	Dayville	1	1	1	0	0	0.366	120	38
159^th	Middletown	13	2	7	0	3	0.365	147	12
160^th	East Haven	5	1	1	0	1	0.341	153	7
161^st	Torrington	8	1	2	0	2	0.341	151	10
162^nd	Norwich	12	3	3	0	3	0.337	164	2
163^rd	Putnam	1	1	2	0	2	0.329	148	15
164^th	Naugatuck	7	3	1	0	3	0.325	158	6
165^th	Stratford	16	4	6	0	3	0.309	154	11
166^th	Manchester	10	2	4	0	8	0.302	160	6
167^th	Danbury	14	3	2	1	9	0.295	162	5
168^th	Danielson	1	0	2	0	2	0.279	163	5
169^th	East Hartford	10	3	7	1	3	0.278	161	8
170^th	Bloomfield	4	2	3	1	2	0.243	168	2
171^st	Baltic	1	0	0	0	2	0.241	157	14
172^nd	Willimantic	4	1	3	0	1	0.221	169	3
173^rd	Derby	2	1	1	0	1	0.216	166	7
174^th	Waterbury	29	6	8	2	12	0.203	173	1
175^th	Bridgeport	30	1	13	4	9	0.203	172	3
176^th	New Haven	31	1	11	3	14	0.194	171	5
177^th	New London	4	3	3	0	4	0.185	170	7
178^th	Ansonia	2	2	3	0	1	0.172	176	2
179^th	Hartford	34	6	20	3	11	0.158	174	5
180^th	Windham	1	0	0	0	0	0.149		(n/a)
181^st	New Britain	15	4	3	1	4	0.091	175	6
182^nd	Taftville	1	0	0	0	1	0.068	177	5

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* Private schools are not used in determining city rank.
Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on test scores released by the Connecticut Department of Education.
These rankings were last updated on August 27, 2024, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the Connecticut Department of Education, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the Connecticut Department of Education.
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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Connecticut Department of Education.