8 Bittersweet Ln #8
Avon, CT 06001

The best thing that can be said about Avon High School is that it's better than Avon Middle School. This, of course, is the lowest of bars, as AMS is a disaster, wrapped in a fiasco, inside a dumpster fire.AHS teachers range from OK to moderately above average, but barely seem interested in the students. The administration is new and underwhelming. There are lots of weird emails filled with fluff, but nothing substantive. It almost feels like the administration emails were written by a high school student at times.It may seem strange that Avon has a reputation for having good schools while having such mediocre to bad schools, but the reality is that "good schools" generally means "affluent families." Most kids from affluent families do OK regardless of school, and the corollary is that mediocre to bad schools can appear to be "good schools" if they are filled with kids from affluent families.This is Avon schools in a nutshell: a school system coasting by because most of the kids are from affluent families, and God help you if you need schools to do any more than coast.

Horrific. People in town will tell you that AMS is the worst of the schools, but they undersell how bad it is. Stay away if you can.

I've been quite shocked at the level of homophobia and general bullying in the school - it's not a very welcoming or safe environment for children. And everything is very process-driven and robotic - the school lacks close parental involvement and parental interaction with teachers and safe, which makes the school culture quite "cold" and unforgiving. All of this can be traced by to poor school culture.

Fantastic. Great communication between the teachers, parents, and school leadership.