Highville Charter School

Highville Charter School, a close-knit all-grades campus in New Haven, Connecticut, overseen by Highville Charter School District, caters to 499 students, covering grades pre-K through 12. By comparison, Connecticut's public schools average about 786 students each, so Highville Charter School sits 37% below that benchmark.

Highville Charter School sits inside Highville Charter School District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Highville Charter School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%). Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against South Central Connecticut Planning Region (around 51%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (South Central Connecticut Planning Region) logs that median household income runs about $88,197, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Highville Charter School is one of 152 public schools in South Central Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 72,909 students).

The closest other public school is Celentano BioTech Health and Medical Magnet School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. Highville Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Highville Charter School has stayed largely flat, going from 502 students in 2018 to 499 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 93% to 82% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 2510.0:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.