Best Cities in Connecticut for Schools

Welcome to SchoolDigger, your premier source for city-wide school rankings! Our user-friendly platform focuses on test scores, presenting a transparent, data-driven comparison to help you navigate the educational scene. Explore top-rated cities in Connecticut and make informed decisions for your child's academic future. With our comprehensive database, uncover the best-performing schools within each city, evaluate their performance, and gain valuable insights. Trust SchoolDigger.com to guide you in finding the perfect city for your child's education. Embark on your journey to academic success right here!

Year after year, SchoolDigger is always the first to publish Connecticut test scores and rankings. Other sites use stale test score data that are several years old! Be in the know with the very latest performance metrics.

The list is updated annually upon the release of the test scores by the Connecticut Department of Education. The most recent update was on Thursday, August 28, 2025.

Be the first to know when we post new test scores and rankings!

Rank (of 177)	City	# Elementary Schools	# Middle Schools	# High Schools	# Alt. Schools	# Private Schools*	Rank score (2025)	Rank (2024)	Rank change from 2024
1^st	New Canaan	3	1	1	0	3	0.993	1
2^nd	Old Greenwich	1	0	0	0	0	0.992	5	3
3^rd	Sherman	1	0	0	0	0	0.99	17	14
4^th	Riverside	3	1	0	0	0	0.986	2	2
5^th	Weston	2	1	1	0	0	0.972	3	2
6^th	Darien	5	1	1	0	1	0.964	6
7^th	Ridgefield	8	3	1	0	3	0.947	7
8^th	Westport	8	2	1	0	4	0.944	4	4
9^th	Wilton	2	1	1	0	4	0.939	9
10^th	Simsbury	2	1	1	0	3	0.936	14	4
11^th	West Simsbury	1	0	0	0	1	0.933	13	2
12^th	Madison	4	1	1	0	4	0.933	8	4
13^th	Redding	1	1	1	0	1	0.932	10	3
14^th	Old Lyme	2	1	1	1	0	0.921	16	2
15^th	Washington	0	0	1	0	2	0.903	31	16
16^th	Cheshire	6	1	3	0	3	0.902	20	4
17^th	Easton	1	1	0	0	1	0.896	18	1
18^th	Farmington	3	2	1	0	1	0.893	22	4
19^th	East Lyme	2	0	4	0	0	0.889	56	37
20^th	Higganum	2	0	1	0	1	0.887	27	7
21^st	Lyme	1	0	0	0	0	0.886	46	25
22^nd	Weatogue	1	0	0	0	0	0.884	26	4
23^rd	Tariffville	1	0	0	0	0	0.882	35	12
24^th	Trumbull	9	2	4	2	5	0.882	23	1
25^th	Woodbridge	1	0	1	0	3	0.879	28	3
26^th	Stonington	1	0	0	0	1	0.878	15	11
27^th	Bethany	1	1	0	0	1	0.876	11	16
28^th	Sandy Hook	2	0	1	0	0	0.872	40	12
29^th	South Glastonbury	3	0	0	0	0	0.864	29
29^th	Southport	1	0	0	0	2	0.864	32	3
31^st	Unionville	2	0	0	0	0	0.862	24	7
32^nd	Greenwich	6	2	2	0	10	0.858	62	30
33^rd	Fairfield	11	3	2	0	9	0.856	38	5
34^th	Niantic	3	1	2	0	2	0.844	53	19
35^th	Orange	4	1	0	0	6	0.83	41	6
36^th	Newtown	3	2	1	0	3	0.822	44	8
37^th	Storrs	0	1	1	0	0	0.821		(n/a)
38^th	Chester	1	0	0	0	1	0.815	12	26
39^th	Pomfret Center	1	0	0	0	0	0.815	49	10
40^th	Guilford	4	2	1	0	0	0.813	30	10
41^st	Canton	1	2	1	0	1	0.806	47	6
42^nd	North Stonington	1	0	1	0	1	0.803	51	9
43^rd	West Suffield	0	0	1	0	0	0.801	36	7
44^th	Prospect	2	2	0	0	0	0.798	82	38
45^th	East Granby	2	1	1	0	0	0.796	66	21
46^th	Ellington	3	1	1	0	0	0.793	37	9
47^th	Bethlehem	1	0	0	0	1	0.793	81	34
48^th	Coventry	4	1	2	0	0	0.792	48
49^th	Lakeville	2	1	0	0	3	0.785	25	24
50^th	Hebron	2	1	1	0	0	0.781	72	22
51^st	Monroe	3	1	1	0	0	0.781	39	12
52^nd	Killingworth	1	1	0	0	0	0.778	60	8
53^rd	Plantsville	4	2	0	0	0	0.772	61	8
54^th	Granby	2	1	1	0	0	0.77	54
55^th	New Fairfield	2	1	2	0	0	0.77	67	12
56^th	Suffield	2	1	1	0	1	0.768	79	23
57^th	Tolland	2	1	1	0	0	0.764	34	23
58^th	Southington	10	2	3	0	2	0.759	63	5
59^th	Marlborough	1	0	0	0	0	0.757	55	4
60^th	Centerbrook	1	0	0	0	0	0.755	57	3
61^st	Beacon Falls	1	0	1	0	0	0.754	73	12
62^nd	Wolcott	4	1	1	0	0	0.746	71	9
63^rd	Harwinton	1	0	0	0	0	0.74	80	17
64^th	Pawcatuck	1	0	1	0	1	0.738	43	21
65^th	Southbury	2	1	1	0	0	0.735	42	23
66^th	Oxford	2	1	1	0	0	0.734	78	12
67^th	Willington	1	1	0	0	0	0.73	112	45
68^th	South Windsor	5	1	1	0	0	0.726	74	6
69^th	Deep River	1	1	1	0	0	0.726	97	28
70^th	Burlington	1	1	1	0	1	0.725	59	11
71^st	West Hartford	16	3	4	0	14	0.722	64	7
72^nd	Durham	1	1	1	0	2	0.722	89	17
73^rd	Mansfield Center	1	0	0	0	2	0.722		(n/a)
74^th	Bolton	1	0	1	0	1	0.721	68	6
75^th	East Hampton	2	1	2	0	0	0.719	93	18
76^th	Waterford	4	2	1	0	2	0.718	75	1
77^th	Yalesville	2	0	0	0	0	0.712	88	11
78^th	Canaan	1	0	0	0	0	0.707	19	59
79^th	Avon	5	2	1	0	4	0.705	76	3
80^th	Lebanon	1	1	1	0	0	0.703	96	16
81^st	Bethel	3	1	1	0	2	0.7	95	14
82^nd	Old Saybrook	1	1	1	0	3	0.697	86	4
83^rd	Andover	2	0	0	0	0	0.694		(n/a)
84^th	Westbrook	1	1	1	0	0	0.692	52	32
85^th	Colchester	2	1	1	0	0	0.69	85
86^th	Glastonbury	7	2	3	1	1	0.689	70	16
87^th	Portland	2	2	1	0	0	0.686	65	22
88^th	Cos Cob	1	0	0	0	0	0.684	87	1
89^th	Kensington	1	0	0	0	2	0.669	84	5
90^th	Woodbury	1	1	1	0	0	0.667	104	14
91^st	Rocky Hill	5	1	1	0	0	0.667	92	1
92^nd	Northford	1	0	1	0	0	0.665	69	23
93^rd	Brookfield	1	1	1	0	4	0.661	50	43
94^th	Berlin	1	1	1	0	0	0.648	77	17
95^th	Shelton	7	2	1	0	1	0.641	94	1
96^th	North Branford	1	1	1	0	0	0.634	107	11
97^th	Ledyard	1	0	1	0	0	0.632	133	36
98^th	Cromwell	2	1	1	0	2	0.63	98
99^th	Quaker Hill	1	0	0	0	1	0.629	100	1
100^th	Mystic	2	1	1	0	0	0.629	101	1
101^st	North Haven	5	1	3	0	1	0.625	103	2
102^nd	Milford	8	3	3	0	8	0.622	117	15
103^rd	Middlebury	2	1	0	0	1	0.611	99	4
104^th	Broad Brook	0	1	0	0	0	0.603	141	37
105^th	New Hartford	3	1	0	0	1	0.598	108	3
106^th	Branford	4	1	1	0	2	0.598	106
107^th	Ashford	1	0	0	0	0	0.591	140	33
108^th	Canterbury	1	1	0	0	0	0.584	125	17
109^th	Somers	1	1	2	0	0	0.583	83	26
110^th	Preston	1	1	0	0	0	0.576	130	20
111^th	Clinton	1	1	2	0	0	0.576	109	2
112^th	Plainville	3	1	2	0	2	0.569	119	7
113^th	Moodus	1	1	1	0	0	0.569	105	8
114^th	Salem	1	0	0	0	0	0.568	124	10
115^th	Wethersfield	7	2	1	1	2	0.566	114	1
116^th	Thomaston	1	1	1	0	0	0.56	134	18
117^th	Oakdale	3	1	1	0	1	0.557	116	1
118^th	Middlefield	2	0	0	0	1	0.548	123	5
119^th	Newington	4	2	1	0	1	0.547	110	9
120^th	Columbia	1	0	0	0	0	0.544	113	7
121^st	Barkhamsted	3	0	0	0	0	0.544	102	19
122^nd	Wallingford	7	2	3	0	8	0.542	132	10
123^rd	Seymour	2	1	1	0	0	0.537	120	3
124^th	Brooklyn	1	1	0	0	1	0.534	115	9
125^th	Vernon	5	1	1	0	0	0.525	121	4
126^th	Woodstock	1	1	2	0	0	0.519	122	4
127^th	Watertown	1	0	1	0	3	0.515	131	4
128^th	Groton	3	1	3	0	1	0.511	127	1
129^th	North Grosvenordale	1	1	1	0	1	0.508	137	8
130^th	Gales Ferry	2	1	0	0	0	0.507	135	5
131^st	Lisbon	1	0	0	0	0	0.503	111	20
132^nd	Winsted	2	2	6	0	1	0.499	118	14
133^rd	Bristol	16	7	4	1	6	0.494	136	3
134^th	West Haven	6	4	2	0	4	0.465	145	11
135^th	New Milford	4	1	2	0	2	0.463	148	13
136^th	Meriden	10	4	5	0	5	0.461	144	8
137^th	Terryville	1	1	1	0	0	0.458	146	9
138^th	Plainfield	3	1	0	0	0	0.458	142	4
139^th	Dayville	1	1	1	0	0	0.446	158	19
140^th	Oakville	2	1	0	0	1	0.443	138	2
141^st	Windsor	5	1	2	0	5	0.428	151	10
142^nd	Stafford Springs	2	1	1	0	0	0.425	126	16
143^rd	Norwalk	15	4	5	0	2	0.418	155	12
144^th	East Windsor	1	0	2	0	0	0.412	150	6
145^th	Danielson	1	0	2	0	2	0.412	168	23
146^th	Enfield	13	1	4	0	4	0.409	143	3
147^th	North Windham	4	0	0	0	0	0.405	156	9
148^th	Stamford	16	5	5	0	17	0.393	152	4
149^th	Uncasville	1	0	1	0	2	0.391	129	20
150^th	Windsor Locks	2	1	2	0	0	0.382	149	1
151^st	Griswold	1	1	1	0	0	0.373	157	6
152^nd	Sterling	1	0	0	0	0	0.365	147	5
153^rd	Manchester	10	2	4	0	8	0.353	166	13
154^th	Torrington	8	1	2	0	2	0.34	161	7
155^th	Hamden	9	2	4	0	7	0.337	153	2
156^th	Putnam	1	1	2	0	2	0.336	163	7
157^th	Middletown	13	2	7	0	3	0.332	159	2
158^th	Danbury	15	3	2	1	9	0.332	167	9
159^th	Stratford	17	4	6	0	3	0.322	165	6
160^th	Naugatuck	7	3	1	0	3	0.317	164	4
161^st	East Haven	6	1	1	0	1	0.307	160	1
162^nd	Norwich	12	3	3	0	3	0.304	162
163^rd	East Hartford	10	3	7	1	3	0.302	169	6
164^th	Derby	3	1	1	0	1	0.297	173	9
165^th	Central Village	0	0	1	0	0	0.262	154	11
166^th	Willimantic	4	1	3	0	1	0.235	172	6
167^th	Waterbury	29	6	8	2	12	0.208	174	7
168^th	Windham	1	0	0	0	0	0.203	180	12
169^th	Bridgeport	30	1	13	4	9	0.203	175	6
170^th	New Haven	31	1	11	3	14	0.199	176	6
171^st	Baltic	1	0	0	0	2	0.199	171
172^nd	Bloomfield	5	2	3	1	2	0.19	170	2
173^rd	Ansonia	2	2	3	0	1	0.183	178	5
174^th	New London	4	3	3	0	4	0.17	177	3
175^th	Hartford	36	6	20	3	11	0.167	179	4
176^th	New Britain	15	4	3	1	4	0.139	181	5
177^th	Taftville	1	0	0	0	1	0.138	182	5

Sign up for updates!

Be the first to know when we update our rankings!

Other SchoolDigger ranking lists for Connecticut

Elementary Schools Middle Schools High Schools Districts Cities

About our rankings:

* Private schools are not used in determining city rank.
Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on test scores released by the Connecticut Department of Education.
These rankings were last updated on August 28, 2025, 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.

Educational resources:

Per-Pupil Spending: Understanding the Breakdown of Federal, State, and Local Funds

Alternative Schools vs Public Schools: A Comparison

SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Connecticut Department of Education.