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Connecticut's Top 100 High School Rankings: How Did Glastonbury Rate?

A new report ranks all of the public high schools in Connecticut.

Niche.com, a rankings and review site, has compiled its list of “2016 Best Public High Schools in Connecticut.”

These rankings are based on state test scores, college readiness, graduation rates, SAT/ACT scores, teacher quality, student and parent reviews, and more.

Niche.com compiled a nationwide list of all high schools and Connecticut failed to crack the top 50.

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According to Niche.com, the top 5 public high schools are: No. 1. Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, N.Y., No. 2 High Technology High School in Lincroft, N.J., No. 3. Staten Island Technical High School in Staten Island, N.Y., No. 4. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia, and No. 5 Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Illinois.

For the complete list for Connecticut from 1 to 100, see below: (Click on the hyperlink to read detailed information on how Niche.com arrived at its ranking.)

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  1. Staples High School
  2. New Canaan High School
  3. Wilton High School
  4. Simsbury High School
  5. Weston High School
  6. Darien High School
  7. Greenwich High School
  8. Ridgefield High School
  9. Glastonbury High School
  10. Amity Regional High School
  11. Farmington High School
  12. Academy of Aerospace & Engineering
  13. Conard High School
  14. Daniel Hand High School
  15. Newtown High School
  16. Lyme-Old Lyme High School
  17. Joel Barlow High School
  18. The Academy of Information Technology
  19. Hall High School
  20. Engineering - Science University Magnet School
  21. East Lyme High School
  22. Avon High School
  23. Valley Regional High School
  24. Fairfield Warde High School
  25. Fairfield Ludlowe High School
  26. Cheshire High School
  27. Old Saybrook Senior High School
  28. Norwich Free Academy
  29. Masuk High School
  30. Brookfield High School
  31. E. O. Smith High School
  32. Waterford High School
  33. Litchfield High School
  34. Coginchaug Regional High School
  35. Canton High School
  36. Guilford High School
  37. Trumbull High School
  38. Northwestern Regional High School
  39. Cromwell High School
  40. Housatonic Valley Regional High School
  41. Haddam-Killingworth High School
  42. Rham High School
  43. Suffield High School
  44. Bethel High School
  45. Pomperaug Regional High School
  46. South Windsor High School
  47. Bolton High School
  48. Fitch Senior High School
  49. Mark T. Sheehan High School
  50. Woodstock Academy
  51. New Fairfield High School
  52. Cooperative High School
  53. Connecticut International Baccalaureate Academy
  54. Newington High School
  55. Branford High School
  56. Plainville High School
  57. East Granby High School
  58. Bristol Central High School
  59. East Hampton High School
  60. Lyman Hall High School
  61. Metropolitan Learning Center
  62. University High School
  63. Granby Memorial High School
  64. Lewis S. Mills High School
  65. Coventry High School
  66. North Haven High School
  67. Southington High School
  68. Parish Hill High School
  69. Rocky Hill High School
  70. Terryville High School
  71. Wheeler High School
  72. Hill Regional Career High School
  73. H. H. Ellis Technical High School
  74. Stonington High School
  75. Somers High School
  76. Common Ground High School
  77. Middletown High School
  78. Wamogo Regional High School
  79. North Branford High School
  80. Ellington High School
  81. Ledyard High School
  82. Westbrook High School
  83. Brien McMahon High School
  84. Waterbury Arts Magnet School (High)
  85. Windsor High School
  86. New Milford High School
  87. Wethersfield High School
  88. Pathways to Technology Magnet School
  89. Wolcott High School
  90. Westhill High School
  91. Oxford High School
  92. Nonnewaug High School
  93. Act Magnet School (Arts at the Capitol Theater)
  94. Connecticut River Academy
  95. Crec Medical Professions & Teacher Preparation A
  96. W. F. Kaynor Technical High School
  97. Seymour High School
  98. Bacon Academy
  99. Amistad Academy
  100. Tolland High School

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