{"ap_courses":12,"ap_rigor_national_percentile":69.6,"at_a_glance":["Staples High School is a public high school in Westport, CT, enrolling 1,629 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.","Enrollment is down 10% from 2021 to 2024.","It offers 12 AP courses, a course-rigor profile stronger than 70% of U.S. high schools (federal Civil Rights Data Collection).","791 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 98% of U.S. high schools.","Its federal four-year graduation rate was about 99% in the latest EDFacts release.","It has about 155 students per school counselor.","5% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.","Staples High School publishes a matriculation list (where its graduates enrolled) for the Class of 2024-2026: 251 colleges. Source: Staples High School Class of 2024-2026 College Matriculation List.","Staples High School reports that the Class of 2025, the seniors who graduated in June 2025, had 11 National Merit Finalists and 23 National Merit Commended Students (Staples High School Class of 2024-2026 College Matriculation List).","Staples High School reports that 94% of the Class of 2025, the seniors who graduated in June 2025, enrolled in four-year colleges (Staples High School Class of 2024-2026 College Matriculation List).","Staples High School reports that the Class of 2025, the seniors who graduated in June 2025, had a mean ACT composite of 29.1 and a mean SAT total of 1239 (Staples High School Class of 2024-2026 College Matriculation List).","Staples High School reports that 97% of AP exams taken by the Class of 2025, the seniors who graduated in June 2025, scored 3 or higher (Staples High School Class of 2024-2026 College Matriculation List).","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":5.3,"city":"Westport","dual_enrollment":false,"enrollment":{"grades_9_12":1629,"year":2024},"enrollment_change_pct":-9.7,"enrollment_change_span":[2021,2024],"faq":[{"a":"Staples High School publishes a matriculation list (where its graduates enrolled) for the Class of 2024-2026: 251 colleges. 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