Howell Cheney Technical High School

Howell Cheney Technical High School is a small high school that serves part of Manchester, Connecticut. Its 652 students are spread across grades 9 through 12.

The 17 schools of Connecticut Technical Education and Career System, including Howell Cheney Technical High School, enroll 11,296 students.

The most common group at Howell Cheney Technical High School is White students, at 49%. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 13% Black, and 6% multiracial. The county population is about 64% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 64% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Howell Cheney Technical High School counts 59.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 10.9 students for each one. This ratio sits 1.4 below the 12.3:1 average for high schools in Connecticut. About 42% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. That tracks the 43% average for public schools in Capitol Planning Region.

In the county around the school, Capitol Planning Region, the median household income is $93,394, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. There are 286 public schools in Capitol Planning Region, enrolling about 137,047 students in all.

Odyssey Community School is located about 0.6 miles from Howell Cheney Technical High School. The five-mile area around Howell Cheney Technical High School holds at least 8 other public schools.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment declined 4% from its 2020-21 level of 678. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.0:1 to 10.9:1.

The Howell Cheney Technical High School community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.