Cheshire High School
Cheshire, CT · High School · Grades 9-12
Cheshire High School is a high school in Cheshire, CT with 1,239 students enrolled and a 62% proficiency rate. Part of Cheshire School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Cheshire High School is a high school located in Cheshire, Connecticut. The school serves 1,239 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 11.9:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 62% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 82% graduation rate.
16% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Cheshire High School is part of the Cheshire School District in Connecticut.
How This School Compares
Cheshire High School has 1,239 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Cheshire School District (591 students). Its 62% proficiency rate is 0 percentage points above the district average of 62%. Compared to the Connecticut state average of 53%, the school performs 9 points higher. With a 11.9:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Cheshire High School has 1,239 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 11.9:1.
According to EDFacts data, 62% of students at Cheshire High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Cheshire High School has a 82% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Cheshire High School is part of the Cheshire School District in Cheshire, Connecticut. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
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For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.