East Lyme High School

East Lyme High School is a mid-sized high school in East Lyme, Connecticut, administered by East Lyme School District. The school covers grades 9 through 12 and reported 890 students in 2024-25.

East Lyme School District is made up of 5 schools with 2,411 students in all.

Federal enrollment data show East Lyme High School is 72% White. Next come 10% Hispanic, 10% Asian, and 5% multiracial. In Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region overall, the White share is about 74%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 45%.

The student-to-teacher ratio at East Lyme High School is 9.9:1, based on 89.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for high schools in Connecticut is 12.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. East Lyme High School counts 24% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, the average is 50%.

In Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, the median household earns about $86,586 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region has 88 public schools with about 36,605 students, including East Lyme High School.

Of the public schools around it, East Lyme High School is closest to Flanders School, about 0.2 miles away. East Lyme High School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Rural: Fringe: in rural territory close to an urban area.

Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 890, compared with 1,010 in 2020-21.

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