About the Stamford Public Schools

• There are 15,000+ students in the Stamford Public Schools.
• The Stamford Public School district consists of 20 schools:
  11 elementary (grades K-5), 1 elementary/middle (grades K-8), 5 middle schools (grades 6-8); and three high schools (grades 9-12).
• The district has four magnet elementary schools (Hart, Toquam, Westover, and Rogers International School) and two magnet middle schools (Scofield and Rogers International School).  There is one interdistrict magnet high school, the Academy of Information Technology & Engineering. Admittance to the magnet schools is through an application and lottery system.
• Kindergarten is a full day program.
• The Stamford Public Schools’ curricula follow state and national standards.
• The high school curriculum includes Honors courses as well as 25 Advanced Placement/college credit courses in English Language and Composition, English Literature and Composition, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, UConn Calculus, Statistics, UConn Statistics, Computer Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics B, Physics C, Environmental Science, UConn Environmental Science, World History, U.S. History, European History, United States Government and Politics, Psychology, Microeconomics, French, Spanish, Music Theory, Studio Art, and Art History.
• A multitude of after-school enrichment programs and clubs are offered at the elementary, middle and high schools. Sports are available through varsity, junior varsity and freshman teams, intramurals, city leagues and the Stamford Youth Foundation.
• Bus transportation is provided for elementary students living one mile or more from school; for middle school students living one-and-a-half miles from school; and for high school students living two miles or more from school.

• Twenty high school students were named Commended Students by the National Merit Scholarship Program for being top scorers in critical reading, math and writing.
• Seventy-two students were named AP Scholars by the College Board in recognition of exceptional achievement on the college level Advanced Placement exams. ‘AP Scholar’ is a designation earned by less than 20% of the more than one million high school students who take the AP exams.
• The S.M.A.R.T. Lego Team won a total of five awards at the Connecticut State Championship and represented Connecticut for the second time at the World Festival in Atlanta.
• Students in the Stamford Public Schools took home eleven awards, more than any other school district in the state, at the Connecticut History Day competition. Six students advanced to the National competition held at the University of Maryland. 

• On the Connecticut Mastery Tests (CMTs), more than 70% of Stamford students in grades 3-8 met proficiency standards in math and reading. A comparison of Connecticut Mastery Test results of Stamford students to students in neighboring towns, with demographics controlled, indicates that the achievement of Stamford students is competitive with the achievement of students in neighboring towns.
• High school students in the Stamford Public Schools posted the highest scores in five years in math, science, and reading, according to results of the March 2006 Connecticut Academic Performance Test (CAPT). 

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