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COVER STORY
GREATER HARTFORD'S 20 BEST HIGH SCHOOLS
Our region contains a diverse mix of educational opportunities. But as you might expect, some schools stand apart from the others. Here’s what it takes to be the best.
By Leonard Felson | Photography by Lanny Nagler
Like so many kids, Noah Preminger had taken up a musical instrument at
his elementary school in Canton. By high school age, his parents, Robert
and Lynn, and his teachers recognized he had a gift for playing the saxophone
that would never be sufficiently cultivated at small Canton High School.
And they knew about the nationally acclaimed jazz program at West Hartford’s
Hall High School some 10 miles away.
They talked to educators and music teachers and held a few family meetings. Finally, they did what Lynn Preminger today says was one of those big-time family decisions that they’ll never regret: They rented their home and bought another house in West Hartford so Noah could attend Hall High and play in the concert jazz band. “It definitely opened up opportunities for me that I never would have had in Canton,” says Preminger, now a 19-year-old sophomore at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
Most families, of course, send their teenage children to high school
in their local district. Yet with competition to get into the best colleges
increasing every year, with a flurry of new themed magnet high schools
opening to students throughout Greater Hartford and with plenty of financial-aid
packages and diversity programs making private schools available to a
wider cross-section of the region’s population, knowing the best
high schools in and around Hartford arguably has never been more important.
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