H. C. Wilcox Technical High School

H. C. Wilcox Technical High School is a mid-sized high school. Its address is in Meriden, Connecticut. It teaches 753 students in grades 9 through 12.

Connecticut Technical Education and Career System has a total of 17 schools and 11,296 students, H. C. Wilcox Technical High School among them.

Hispanic students make up 48% of enrollment at H. C. Wilcox Technical High School, the largest share of any group. The next largest groups are 38% White, 6% Black, and 5% multiracial. In South Central Connecticut Planning Region overall, about 20% of residents are Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 61, compared with 70 nationally.

There are about 11.8 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at H. C. Wilcox Technical High School, which has 63.9. The average for high schools in Connecticut is about 12.3:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 46%.

American Community Survey estimates for South Central Connecticut Planning Region show that the median household earns about $88,197 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Across South Central Connecticut Planning Region, 152 public schools serve about 72,909 students.

Orville H. Platt High School, about 0.4 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 753, compared with 782 in 2020-21.

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