Bethel High School

Bethel High School is a mid-sized high school located in Bethel, Connecticut. The school offers grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 1,097 students. On average, high schools in Connecticut enroll around 788, and this school is 39% larger than that mark.

Bethel High School is run by Bethel School District, whose 5 schools enroll 3,188 students.

Of every 100 students at Bethel High School, about 57 are White. The rest of enrollment is 26% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 4% Black, and 4% multiracial. The diversity index for Bethel High School is 60%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

Bethel High School lists 80.4 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.6 students per teacher. By comparison, the average for high schools in Connecticut is 12.3:1. About 32% of students at Bethel High School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region is similar, at 33%.

Census data for Western Connecticut Planning Region show median household income comes to about $128,188, about 56% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county has 149 public schools and about 90,520 students.

Frank A. Berry School is about 0.1 miles from Bethel High School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Bethel High School holds at least 8 other public schools.

The NCES locale for Bethel High School is Suburb: Mid-size, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Enrollment figures show a rise of 162 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. The ratio was 11.5:1 in 2020-21 and 13.6:1 in 2024-25.

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