Stamford High School
Stamford, CT · High School · Grades 9-12
Stamford High School is a high school in Stamford, CT with 2,048 students enrolled and a 49% proficiency rate. Part of Stamford School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Stamford High School is a high school located in Stamford, Connecticut. The school serves 2,048 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 11.3:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 49% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 70% graduation rate.
53% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Stamford High School is part of the Stamford School District in Connecticut. The school receives Title I federal funding.
How This School Compares
Stamford High School has 2,048 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Stamford School District (745 students). Its 49% proficiency rate is 0 percentage points above the district average of 49%. Compared to the Connecticut state average of 53%, the school performs 5 points lower. With a 11.3:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Stamford High School has 2,048 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 11.3:1.
According to EDFacts data, 49% of students at Stamford High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Stamford High School has a 70% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Stamford High School is part of the Stamford School District in Stamford, 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.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
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.