- Of the CTHSS’s 10,573 students, nearly 64% are male, 56.3% are white, 27.5% are black, and 14.5% are Hispanic.
- Five schools operated at more than 100% capacity: Bullard-Havens (Bridgeport), Norwich Tech, Platt (Milford), Kaynor (Waterbury), and Wilcox (Meriden).
- Bullard-Havens, with a capacity of 825 students and an enrollment of 884, is the most crowded of the 17 schools at 107.2% of capacity.
- The trades with the highest system-wide enrollment were: culinary arts (10.7% of all students), automotive technology (9.6%), electrical (9.5%), hairdressing/barbering (8.8%), and carpentry (8%).
- In 2010, 48.5% of CTHSS students got full-time jobs or went into the military immediately after graduation and 44.5% pursued postsecondary education. For the same year the statewide averages for all high school graduates were 84.5% and 10.4%, respectively.
- The highest percentages of CTHSS graduates finding full-time work in fields related to their training upon graduation were: Bioscience Environmental Technology (100%), Welding (100%) Manufacturing Technology (80%) and Hotel/Hospitality Technology (72.7%).
The complete report is available in the Legislative Library.
