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Connecticut's Best High Schools Rankings: Middletown is Average Among its Peers
Three of the four city public schools' rankings are near the state average: the student-to teacher ratio of 14-to-1, students' college readiness; and math proficiency is 74 percent.
The U.S. News Best High Schools 2013 rankings released this week name the top high schools in Connecticut, and Middletown is not among them. Reviewed were 21,035 U.S. public high schools and 39 state schools made the list out of 196 in the state.
Three of the four tested ratios in Middletown are near the state average: the student-to teacher ratio of 14-to-1, students' college readiness; and math proficiency is 74 percent.
The district's reading proficiency, however, is 70 percent, which is below the state average.
Connecticut has 11 gold medal schools, 24 silver medal schools and four bronze medal schools.
Students in Connecticut are assessed via the Connecticut Academic Performance Test, which gauges their skills in math, science, reading and writing. Particularly ambitious students can earn both high school and college credit through a concurrent enrollment program at the University of Connecticut.
The top 20 state high schools are:
- Darien High School
- Conard High School
- Weston High School
- Ridgefield High School
- Farmington High School
- Wilton High School
- Staples High School, Westport
- William H. Hall High School, West Hartford
- Joel Barlow High School, Redding
- Connecticut International Baccalaureate Academy, East Hartford
The student body makeup is 51 percent male and 49 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 42 percent.
The city's public school district average in reading proficiency is 70 percent in math and 74 percent demonstrate adequate college readiness.
Learn more from the Connecticut State Department of Education.
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