Ella T. Grasso Technical High School

Ella T. Grasso Technical High School operates as a mid-tier high school in Groton, Connecticut, one of the schools within Connecticut Technical Education and Career System. Current enrollment sits at 684 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

Connecticut Technical Education and Career System comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 11,296 students; Ella T. Grasso Technical High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Ella T. Grasso Technical High School lists that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 37% White, 11% multiracial, 8% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region put the typical household earns roughly $86,586 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region's 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,605 students), Ella T. Grasso Technical High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Groton Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ella T. Grasso Technical High School.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ella T. Grasso Technical High School has grew 45%, going from 472 students in 2018 to 684 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 47% to 37% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 8.4:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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