Darien High School

Darien High School, a large high school, is located in Darien, Connecticut. The school enrolls 1,382 students in grades 9 through 12. That compares with an average of about 788 students for high schools in Connecticut.

Darien High School is among 7 schools run by Darien School District, which serves 4,649 students.

The share of students at Darien High School who are White is 81%. Smaller groups are 9% Hispanic, 6% Asian, and 3% multiracial. County-wide, 61% of Western Connecticut Planning Region residents are White. A diversity index of 34% means there is a 34% chance two randomly chosen students at Darien High School are from different groups.

A staff of 129 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 10.7:1. Compared with the 12.3:1 average for high schools in Connecticut, this school's ratio is lower. By family income, 4% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region, the average is 33%.

The county, Western Connecticut Planning Region, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $128,188 a year, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Western Connecticut Planning Region has 149 public schools with about 90,520 students, including Darien High School.

Middlesex Middle School is the nearest public school to Darien High School, about 0.9 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

Darien High School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.

Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 1,382 to 1,382.

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