Naugatuck High School

Naugatuck High School sits in Naugatuck, Connecticut, and is classified as a high school. Enrollment is 1,202 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 9 through 12. Against the 788-student average for high schools in Connecticut, enrollment here is 53% higher.

Across its 9 schools, Naugatuck School District enrolls 3,889 students. Naugatuck High School is one of those schools.

Naugatuck High School has no majority group; Hispanic students are the largest, at 41%. Other students are 38% White, 14% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. By comparison, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region residents are about 20% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 67% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Teachers at Naugatuck High School total 78.9 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.2:1. That is 2.9 students per teacher above the 12.3:1 average for high schools in Connecticut. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 54%. For comparison, public schools in Naugatuck Valley Planning Region average 52%.

According to the American Community Survey, in Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, the median household income is $86,191, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Naugatuck High School is one of 121 public schools in the county.

Western School is the public school closest to Naugatuck High School, about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Mid-size).

Enrollment is down 6% from 2020-21, when Naugatuck High School had 1,278 students, to 2024-25, when it had 1,202.

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