Old Saybrook Senior High School

Old Saybrook Senior High School is a close-knit senior high in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, part of Old Saybrook School District. The school works with 338 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 57% leaner than the state mean of about 788.

Old Saybrook School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,028 students. Old Saybrook Senior High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Old Saybrook Senior High School logs that White students make up the majority at 77%. The remainder looks like 14% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. Compared to Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 22% of students at Old Saybrook Senior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region's rate of about 32%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region) records that median household income runs about $104,428, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region's 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,075 students), Old Saybrook Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Kathleen E. Goodwin School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Old Saybrook Senior High School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Old Saybrook Senior High School has shrank 25%, going from 453 students in 2018 to 338 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 14% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 in 2025.

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