Trip Down Buttonball Lane In Glastonbury Leads To A Top School In CT

MANSFIELD, CT — Glastonbury's Buttonball Lane School is the 50th best public elementary school in Connecticut, according to a new ranking compiled by U.S. News & World Report.

U.S. News researchers based the 2025 ranking of the nation’s best public elementary schools on publicly available data from the U.S. Department of Education. Elementary schools are considered K-6 in the analysis. Six of the seven schools ahead of Mansfield Elementary at Goodwin and the six that follow in the ranking are all in Fairfield County.

The methodology for the rankings focused on state assessments of students who were proficient or above proficient in math and reading/language arts, while also accounting for students’ background and their achievements in core subjects. Student-teacher ratios were applied to break ties.

The rankings are intended as an evaluation tool to inform parents on how well schools are doing at providing high-equality education and providing students for a successful future, LaMont Jones, managing editor for Education at U.S. News, said in a news release.

West School in New Canaan was first and Washington Primary School in Washington Depot was second.

See the full ranking data for Buttonball here.

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