Waterbury Career Academy

Waterbury, Connecticut, is home to Waterbury Career Academy, a medium-sized high school. Grades offered run from 9 through 12, with 709 students enrolled.

Waterbury School District has 29 schools; together they serve 17,123 students.

By race and ethnicity, Waterbury Career Academy is 55% Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 26% Black, 13% White, 3% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Naugatuck Valley Planning Region's population at about 20%. The chance that two students picked at random at Waterbury Career Academy belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 62%.

Waterbury Career Academy employs 59.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 12.0:1. High schools in Connecticut have a similar average ratio of 12.3:1. Waterbury Career Academy's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 78%. That is 26 points above the 52% average for public schools in Naugatuck Valley Planning Region.

Recent Census Bureau figures for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region show that median household income is about $86,191, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Waterbury Career Academy is one of 121 public schools in Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, which together enroll about 59,861 students.

Woodrow Wilson School is the public school closest to Waterbury Career Academy, about 0.1 miles away. Waterbury Career Academy has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The school's locale code, City: Mid-size, means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 807 to 709. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (12.0:1) than in 2020-21 (14.9:1).

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