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Public Schools in Connecticut

1,005 schools · 197 districts · 496,912 students

53%
Average
Avg Proficiency
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Largest Schools in Connecticut

School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.

Danbury High School

Danbury

3,590 students

Greenwich High School

Greenwich

2,668 students

New Britain High School

New Britain

2,331 students

Westhill High School

Stamford

2,265 students

Trumbull High School

Trumbull

2,134 students

Stamford High School

Stamford

2,048 students

Norwich Free Academy

Norwich

2,033 students

Southington High School

Southington

1,945 students

Glastonbury High School

Glastonbury

1,801 students

West Haven High School

West Haven

1,780 students

Frequently Asked Questions

Connecticut has 1,005 public schools across 197 districts, serving 496,912 students.

The largest school in Connecticut is Danbury High School with 3,590 students. Connecticut has 1,005 public schools overall.

The average proficiency rate is 53%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.

All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.

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School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.

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.

Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

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.