Summary:
The Wethersfield School District serves 3,386 students across 7 schools in Wethersfield, Connecticut: 5 elementary schools serving grades PK-6, Silas Deane Middle School for grades 7-8, and Wethersfield High School for grades 9-12. While the district overall ranks in the 43rd percentile among Connecticut districts, every individual school ranks at or above the 50th percentile within its own school type category, meaning families will find schools that compete well against similar schools across the state.
Highcrest School is the district's academic leader, ranking in the 72nd percentile with a 4-star rating and the highest elementary proficiency average at 67.7% — all while spending the least per student in the district at $14,423. Alfred W. Hanmer School is nearly its equal at 66.9% proficiency despite having the second-highest economic disadvantage rate, and it recorded the district's single best elementary grade-level score with 81.1% proficiency in 4th grade ELA. Samuel B. Webb Elementary School is the most improved school, jumping from the 45th to the 59th percentile in one year, and it has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the district at just 3.6%.
The district's biggest challenges are secondary math and middle school attendance. Only 27.6% of 11th graders at Wethersfield High School are proficient in SAT math, below the state average of 31.3%, although the school's 96.2% graduation rate is well above the state's 91.2%. Silas Deane Middle School has the district's highest chronic absenteeism at 11.2% and has slipped from the 66th to the 62nd percentile, with 8th grade math proficiency of 39.9% trailing the state. The remaining elementary schools — Emerson-Williams School and Charles Wright School — are solid mid-pack performers in the 50th-55th percentile range. Overall, Wethersfield offers strong elementary options, excellent science and ELA results, and low chronic absenteeism, but families should be aware of the middle school attendance issue and the math challenges that emerge at the secondary level.
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