Westport’s Staples High School ranked No. 7 in Connecticut in the Washington Post’s annual survey called “America’s Most Challenging High Schools.”
Staples placed No. 830 on the national list with an index score of 2.351. Last year it ranked No. 9 in the state.
The Connecticut list was topped by Connecticut IB Academy, East Hartford; followed in order by Farmington; Conard, West Hartford; Weston; Ridgefield; Westhill, Stamford; Staples; Coventry; Greenwich, and New Fairfield.
According to the newspaper, America’s Most Challenging High Schools “ranks schools through an index formula that’s a simple ratio: the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year, divided by the number of seniors who graduated that year. “
