Danbury High School
Danbury, CT · High School · Grades 9-12
Danbury High School is a high school in Danbury, CT with 3,590 students enrolled and a 43% proficiency rate. Part of Danbury School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Danbury High School is a high school located in Danbury, Connecticut. The school serves 3,590 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.4:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 43% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 79% graduation rate.
48% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Danbury High School is part of the Danbury School District in Connecticut. The school receives Title I federal funding.
How This School Compares
Danbury High School has 3,590 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Danbury School District (631 students). Its 43% proficiency rate is 9 percentage points below the district average of 53%. Compared to the Connecticut state average of 53%, the school performs 10 points lower.
Frequently Asked Questions
Danbury High School has 3,590 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 15.4:1.
According to EDFacts data, 43% of students at Danbury High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Danbury High School has a 79% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Danbury High School is part of the Danbury School District in Danbury, Connecticut. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.