Tourtellotte Memorial High School

Tourtellotte Memorial High School is one of the very small senior highs in North Grosvenordale, Connecticut, one of the schools within Thompson School District, with 184 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 77% below the state mean of about 788.

Thompson School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 805 students. Tourtellotte Memorial High School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Tourtellotte Memorial High School logs that 79% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Tourtellotte Memorial High School shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.9:1. The state averages around 12.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region indicate median household earnings sit near $90,589, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Tourtellotte Memorial High School is one of 34 public schools in Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 11,909 students).

Thompson Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tourtellotte Memorial High School has fell 24%, going from 243 students in 2018 to 184 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 86% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 7.9:1 in 2025.

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