{"ap_courses":22,"ap_rigor_national_percentile":75.6,"at_a_glance":["Darien High School is a public high school in Darien, CT, enrolling 1,382 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.","Enrollment is down 2% from 2021 to 2024.","It offers 22 AP courses, a course-rigor profile stronger than 76% of U.S. high schools, and has a dual-enrollment program (federal Civil Rights Data Collection).","591 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 95% of U.S. high schools.","Its federal four-year graduation rate was about 97% in the latest EDFacts release.","It has about 173 students per school counselor.","1% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.","Darien High School had 9 National Merit Semifinalists and 17 Commended Scholars in the Class of 2025, the seniors who graduated in June 2025 (Darien High School 2024-25 school profile).","Darien High School had 3 National Merit Finalists, 1 Semifinalist, and 21 Commended Students in the Class of 2024, the seniors who graduated in June 2024 (Darien High School 2024-25 school profile).","Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named."],"caveats":["UC admits and applications are counted at each campus: a student admitted to three UCs counts three times. The UC Reach Score is those admits divided by the senior class, times 100, so a strong school scores above 100.","A published college list is the school's own document, copied as printed; counts are the school's, never ours, and an unnumbered list carries no counts.","Enrollment is NCES CCD for national pages and CDE for California pages; graduation and readiness measures are the state's or EDFacts' own definitions, named in each sentence.","Every figure here is also rendered on the HTML page it describes."],"chronic_absenteeism_pct":0.6,"city":"Darien","dual_enrollment":true,"enrollment":{"grades_9_12":1382,"year":2024},"enrollment_change_pct":-1.9,"enrollment_change_span":[2021,2024],"faq":[{"a":"Darien High School offers 22 AP courses, a course-rigor profile stronger than 76% of U.S. high schools, and has a dual-enrollment program (federal Civil Rights Data Collection).","q":"How many AP courses does Darien High School offer?"},{"a":"Darien High School's federal four-year graduation rate was about 97% in the latest EDFacts release.","q":"What is Darien High School's graduation rate?"},{"a":"Darien High School is a public high school in Darien, CT, enrolling 1,382 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.","q":"How many students attend Darien High School?"}],"federal_grad_rate_pct":97.0,"feeder_standing":null,"name":"Darien High School","nces_id":"090105000164","ok":true,"published_college_list":null,"sat_act_national_percentile":94.6,"sat_act_takers":591,"school_facts":[{"class_year":2025,"commended":17,"kind":"national_merit","method":"sweep:judged","quote":"Class of 2025 produced 9 Semi-Finalists and 17 Commended Scholars","retrieved":"2026-10-28","semifinalists":9,"source_name":"Darien High School 2024-25 school profile","source_url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1728563180/darienpsorg/i8a2cz0ehmv3fqvwvbe6/Profile2024-2510-10-24.pdf","text":"Darien High School had 9 National Merit Semifinalists and 17 Commended Scholars in the Class of 2025, the seniors who graduated in June 2025 (Darien High School 2024-25 school profile).","where":"page 2"},{"class_year":2024,"commended":21,"finalists":3,"kind":"national_merit","method":"sweep:judged","quote":"Class of 2024 produced 3 Finalists, 1 Semi-Finalists and 21 Commended Students","retrieved":"2026-10-28","semifinalists":1,"source_name":"Darien High School 2024-25 school profile","source_url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1728563180/darienpsorg/i8a2cz0ehmv3fqvwvbe6/Profile2024-2510-10-24.pdf","text":"Darien High School had 3 National Merit Finalists, 1 Semifinalist, and 21 Commended Students in the Class of 2024, the seniors who graduated in June 2024 (Darien High School 2024-25 school profile).","where":"page 2"}],"school_type":"Public","slug":"darien-high-school","state":"CT","state_measures":{},"students_per_counselor":173,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/school/darien-high-school"}