Eli Whitney School Ranks 97th in Connecticut Elementary List
U.S. News & World Report ranked about 46,000 public elementary schools nationwide to produce the 2027 list.
By Alejandro Ruiz ·
Eli Whitney School in Stratford placed 97th among Connecticut public elementary schools in the 2027 rankings released by U.S. News & World Report. The list names the state's highest-performing schools for the coming year.
Riverside School in Greenwich took the top spot statewide. Veterans Park Elementary School in Ridgefield placed second, followed by Bugbee School in West Hartford.
The ranking process drew on reading and mathematics results collected from state education agencies and the U.S. Department of Education. In total, roughly 46,000 public elementary schools nationwide were evaluated.
For 2027, U.S. News added state-level data to its method, measuring student performance at every proficiency level while accounting for student background and performance on state assessments. Where schools tie on overall scores, student-teacher ratios decide the placement.
The review covered schools that run from prekindergarten through fifth or sixth grade, plus schools with wider grade ranges. For those schools, only test results through fifth grade were counted.
The full 2027 Best Elementary Schools rankings were published by U.S. News & World Report.
Source: Hoover Patch · original report published
