New Fairfield High School is the only secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 within New Fairfield, Connecticut

New Fairfield, Connecticut

New Fairfield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 13,881 at the 2010 census. The town is considered part of the greater New York Metropolitan Area and lies approximately from New York City...

. It enrolls approximately 900 students annually. The current principal of New Fairfield High School is Mariana Coelho. The school was constructed in the 1970s with open classrooms that were retrofitted with walls in the 1980s. New Fairfield was ranked by Newsweek

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on its list of the top 1300 public high schools in the U.S. for 2007.

Athletics

The student fan section named the "Rowdy Rebels" has been voted the #1 high-school cheering section in Connecticut in 2010.

External links

• New Fairfield High School Website
• http://www.csde.state.ct.us/public/der/ssp/SCH0506/sr072.pdf New Fairfield High School "Strategic School Profile 2005-2006 from state Department of
• http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/ct/565 School's main Web page at Great Schools Web site]