Lyme-Old Lyme High School

Federal records list Lyme-Old Lyme High School as a high school in Old Lyme, Connecticut. The school enrolls 367 students in grades 9 through 12. High schools in Connecticut average about 788 students, which makes this school 53% below average.

Lyme-Old Lyme High School is one school in Regional School District 18, a system of 5 schools with 1,278 students.

Roughly 81% of students at Lyme-Old Lyme High School are White. Other students are 8% Hispanic, 5% Asian, and 4% multiracial. Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region residents are about 81% White, a similar share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Lyme-Old Lyme High School scores 32%.

A staff of 38.2 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 9.6:1. The average for high schools in Connecticut, 12.3:1, is higher. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 13%. Across public schools in Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, the average is 32%.

In the wider Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region area, the median household earns about $104,428 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Across Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, 57 public schools serve about 19,075 students.

A public school about 0.1 miles away, Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School, is the closest to Lyme-Old Lyme High School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 6 other public schools.

NCES assigns Lyme-Old Lyme High School the locale Rural: Fringe, meaning in rural territory close to an urban area.

Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 18%, from 450 to 367.

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