Best Middle Schools in Connecticut for Disabled Students

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Every year, the Connecticut Department of Education shares test results for various student groups in each school. We use these results to find out which schools do best for each group and list them from the best to the worst.

Additionally, we also compare the performance of the subgroup to the performance of the school as a whole. This makes it easy to see if, for example, Disabled students are overperforming or underperforming their peers in each school.

The list is updated annually upon the release of the NGSS and SBAC test scores by the Connecticut Department of Education. The most recent update was on Tuesday, August 27, 2024.

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School															Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2023)							Ranking (Disabled vs All Students - 2021)
ID	Rank (of 104)	School	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Disc Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel from Federal Funds	Total from Federal Funds	Personnel from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Total from State and Local Funds	Statewide Rank Percentile (Disabled)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (Disabled)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)
090105000169	1	Middlesex Middle School	Public	6-8	204 Hollow Tree Ridge Rd.	Darien	06820	Fairfield County	Darien School District	No	No	No	Yes	(203) 655-2518	1,143	112	10.2	1.5%	956 (83.6%)	14 (1.2%)	74 (6.5%)	61 (5.3%)	1 (0.1%)	0 (0.0%)	37 (3.2%)	$23,216							99.0%	99.3%	0.23%
090270000532	2	Saxe Middle School	Public	5-8	468 South Ave.	New Canaan	06840	Fairfield County	New Canaan School District	No	No	No	Yes	(203) 594-4564	1,342	114	11.7	0.2%	1,082 (80.6%)	21 (1.6%)	73 (5.4%)	113 (8.4%)	2 (0.1%)	3 (0.2%)	48 (3.6%)	$23,572							98.1%	99.6%	1.56%
090171000298	3	Eastern Middle School	Public	6-8	51 Hendrie Ave.	Riverside	06878	Fairfield County	Greenwich School District	No	No	No	No	(203) 637-1744	837	82	10.1	8.1%	555 (66.3%)	12 (1.4%)	114 (13.6%)	102 (12.2%)	1 (0.1%)	0 (0.0%)	53 (6.3%)	$24,762							97.1%	98.9%	1.79%
090153000919	4	Roger Ludlowe Middle School	Public	6-8	689 Unquowa Rd.	Fairfield	06824	Fairfield County	Fairfield School District	No	No	No	No	(203) 255-8345	817	76	10.8	8.7%	689 (84.3%)	12 (1.5%)	45 (5.5%)	39 (4.8%)	1 (0.1%)	0 (0.0%)	31 (3.8%)	$22,974							96.2%	94.5%	1.61%
090411000811	5	Henry James Memorial School	Public	7-8	155 Firetown Rd.	Simsbury	06070	Hartford County	Simsbury School District	No	No	No	Yes	(860) 651-3341	623	53	11.7	17.0%	432 (69.3%)	44 (7.1%)	60 (9.6%)	48 (7.7%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.2%)	38 (6.1%)	$21,548							95.2%	95.3%	0.08%
090381000776	6	East Ridge Middle School	Public	6-8	10 East Ridge Rd.	Ridgefield	06877	Fairfield County	Ridgefield School District	No	No	No	Yes	(203) 894-5500	538	48	11.2	8.7%	424 (78.8%)	1 (0.2%)	45 (8.4%)	38 (7.1%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.2%)	29 (5.4%)	$22,493							94.2%	94.9%	0.68%
090504001048	7	Bedford Middle School	Public	6-8	88 North Ave.	Westport	06880	Fairfield County	Westport School District	No	No	No	No	(203) 341-1510	1,207	76	15.8	2.8%	924 (76.6%)	24 (2.0%)	95 (7.9%)	76 (6.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	88 (7.3%)	$25,208							93.3%	98.5%	5.28%
090228001480	8	Walter C. Polson Middle School	Public	6-8	302 Green Hill Rd.	Madison	06443	New Haven County	Madison School District	No	No	No	No	(203) 245-6480	548	62	8.8	4.4%	460 (83.9%)	4 (0.7%)	37 (6.8%)	21 (3.8%)	2 (0.4%)	1 (0.2%)	23 (4.2%)	$24,986							92.3%	96.0%	3.69%
090513001073	9	Middlebrook School	Public	6-8	131 School Rd.	Wilton	06897	Fairfield County	Wilton School District	No	No	No	No	(203) 762-8388	920	92	10	4.0%	697 (75.8%)	5 (0.5%)	65 (7.1%)	100 (10.9%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	53 (5.8%)	$23,466							91.3%	97.1%	5.74%
090438000877	10	Stonington Middle School	Public	6-8	204 Mistuxet Ave.	Mystic	06355	New London County	Stonington School District	No	No	No	Yes	(860) 536-9613	448	41	11	29.7%	384 (85.7%)	4 (0.9%)	26 (5.8%)	6 (1.3%)	2 (0.4%)	1 (0.2%)	25 (5.6%)	$24,621							90.4%	88.4%	2.02%

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About our rankings:

Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on SBAC English Language Arts, SBAC Mathematics, NGSS Science 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.
For more information about our ranking process, please see our Ranking FAQ. Details about our methodology are here.

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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.