Platt Technical High School

Platt Technical High School is a high school of average-sized scale in Milford, Connecticut, one of the schools within Connecticut Technical Education and Career System, caters to 749 students in grades 9 through 12.

Connecticut Technical Education and Career System comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 11,296 students; Platt Technical High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Platt Technical High School logs that 44% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 33% White, 16% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, South Central Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Platt Technical High School has 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the surrounding community, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, South Central Connecticut Planning Region runs 152 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,909 students), of which Platt Technical High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Orange Avenue School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Platt Technical High School.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Platt Technical High School has declined 8%, going from 816 students in 2018 to 749 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 44% to 33%.

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