Orville H. Platt High School

Orville H. Platt High School, a well-populated senior high in Meriden, Connecticut, one of the schools within Meriden School District, enrolls 1,191 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 51% larger than the state mean of about 788.

Within Meriden School District, which oversees 13 schools and 8,036 students, Orville H. Platt High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Orville H. Platt High School records that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 18% White, 13% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, South Central Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Orville H. Platt High School reports 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.3:1, putting Orville H. Platt High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 81% of students at Orville H. Platt High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 noticeably above typical.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (South Central Connecticut Planning Region) reports that the typical household earns roughly $88,197 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, South Central Connecticut Planning Region runs 152 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,909 students), of which Orville H. Platt High School is one.

Lincoln Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Orville H. Platt High School.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Orville H. Platt High School has edged up 30%, going from 915 students in 2018 to 1,191 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 55% to 64%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

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