Somers High School

As a tight-knit senior high in Somers, Connecticut, Somers High School caters to 359 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Somers School District. By comparison, Connecticut's public schools average about 788 students each, so Somers High School sits 54% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Somers School District (1,339 students total), Somers High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Somers High School shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.3:1 average. Roughly 5% of students at Somers High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Capitol Planning Region runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Capitol Planning Region shows median household earnings sit near $93,394, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Capitol Planning Region's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 137,047 students), Somers High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Somers Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Somers High School.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Somers High School's enrollment has edged down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 475 (now 359). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Somers High School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.