Staples High School Ranked No. 3 in Connecticut in Website Poll

Westport’s Staples High School was ranked the third-best public high school in the state and No. 94 in the country in a study published by Niche.com, a website that ranks schools across the nation.

Coming in ahead of Staples were only Weston High School (No. 1) and New Canaan High (No. 2). Rankings of other schools in the area: Darien (No. 4), Ridgefield (No. 6), Wilton (No. 7) and Greenwich (No. 8).

The study graded and ranked schools after looking into these factors: academics, health and safety, teachers, extracurricular activities (for all four of which, Staples received an “A+” grade), sports and fitness, resources and facilities (for these, Staples received a grade of “A”), a parent/student survey (Staples scored 4.1 out of a possible 5.0), and “student culture & diversity” in which Staples bombed with a ”C+”.

Niche says the ”student culture & diversity” factor “incorporates statistics and student, alumni, and parent surveys regarding student culture and diversity at the school.”

The study ranked 100 high schools in Connecticut and many more elsewhere. Among the high schools that the website ranked the 100 best in the country were Weston (No. 84), New Canaan (No. 85) and Westport (No. 94), the only schools from Connecticut on that list.

Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that only Weston and New Canaan appeared on the top-100 rankings. Not so. Westport was there at No. 94.

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