Cheshire High School

Cheshire High School, located in Cheshire, Connecticut, is a high-enrollment high school. It offers grades 9 through 12 and has 1,208 students enrolled. It has 53% more students than the average for high schools in Connecticut (about 788).

Cheshire High School is one of 7 schools in Cheshire School District, which enrolls 4,236 students in total.

The share of White students at Cheshire High School is 72%, a majority. Other students are 12% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 4% Black, and 3% multiracial. That is higher than the 64% White share among all Naugatuck Valley Planning Region residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 45%.

There are about 11.6 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Cheshire High School, which has 104.5. The school's 11.6:1 compares with an average of 12.3:1 for high schools in Connecticut. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 17%. That is 35 points below the 52% average for public schools in Naugatuck Valley Planning Region.

Census data for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region show median household income comes to about $86,191, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. The county has 121 public schools and about 59,861 students.

Cheshire High School's nearest public school is Norton School (about 1.0 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 12%, from 1,367 to 1,208. By 2024-25, the school had 11.6 students per teacher, compared with 13.8 in 2020-21.

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