Derby High School

Derby High School is a high school of modestly sized scale in Derby, Connecticut, run under Derby School District, serveing 360 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 54% below the typical public school in Connecticut, which averages around 788 students.

Within Derby School District, which oversees 5 schools and 1,289 students, Derby High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Derby High School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 24% White, 23% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Derby High School reports 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.3:1 average. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Across the wider county, census data for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region shows median household earnings sit near $86,191, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region runs 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,861 students), of which Derby High School is one.

The closest other public school is Derby Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Derby High School.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Derby High School's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 353 (now 360). The White share of enrollment shrank from 48% to 24% over that span.

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