Avon is a town in the Farmington Valley region of Hartford County, Connecticut, United States and a suburb of Hartford. Avon Old Farms School, a prestigious boarding school, is located there.

In 2005, Avon was named the third-safest town in America by Money Magazine. It is home to the Pine Grove School House, which was built in 1865 and remains open today as a museum. Avon is home to Avon High School; as well as two elementary schools, Pine Grove Elementary and Roaring Brook Elementary; an intermediate (grades 5–6) school, Thompson Brook; and a middle school (grades 7–8), Avon Middle School.

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