Common Ground High School | |
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358 Springside Avenue , New Haven County , Connecticut 06515 United States | |
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Type | Charter School |
Motto | Pride, Ownership, Wonder, Effort, Respect (POWER) |
Established | 1997 |
Status | Open |
CEEB code | 070474 |
Director | Cherry Pacquette-Emmanuel |
Teaching staff | 25.40 (FTE) [1] |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 223 (2023-2024) [1] |
Average class size | 47 |
Student to teacher ratio | 8.78 [1] |
Campus | Urban |
Color(s) | Forest green and white |
Sports | Basketball |
Team name | Hawks |
Newspaper | Hawk News |
Website | www |
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Common Ground is located on 20 acres of city park land at the base of West Rock Ridge State Park in New Haven, near the Southern Connecticut State University campus. The school is a program of the New Haven Ecology Project, a non-profit organization that also operates a community environmental education center and urban farm on the same site.
In 2013, work began on a new building and campus improvements that would allow the school to grow to 225 students. This building was completed in the spring 2016.
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