Connecticut High School Students Rank Among Smartest In Nation

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- Connecticut high school students are smart cookies -- so says a new report conducted by Find the Best and published in Business Insider.

Connecticut high school students are the fourth-smartest in the country, according to a new report.
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by Eric Gendron

06/12/2014 3:10 p.m.

Connecticut ranked fourth in the nation in a study of the nation's "smartest high school students."

The study looked at scores from the SAT, ACT, AP, and National Assessment of Educational Progress tests from each state's department of education and created a Public School Rating from one to five.

Connecticut was in the 96th percentile of the study with a score of 4.8195.

Only New Hampshire (which scored a perfect 5.0), Minnesota and Massachusetts (4.9 each) scored higher than Connecticut.

Mississippi ranked the lowest in the study with a score of 2.97.

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