Reports on the regional school district serving Andover, Hebron, and Marlborough.
What RHAM's class sizes actually are today, measured directly from the master schedule, compared to peer Connecticut secondary regional districts both historically (CT Mirror's 2012–13 dataset) and today (NCES 2024–25). Examines the gap between RHAM's enrollment decline and its staffing decline as the source of currently small classes.
Eleven years of Net Current Expenditures Per Pupil for RHAM and the seven other Connecticut regional districts that serve only secondary grades, with comparison against CPI-U inflation and the Social Security COLA. The headline +96.6% per-pupil increase over the decade is among the steepest in the peer group, but is overwhelmingly a denominator effect: enrollment fell 36.5% while total operating spending grew slower than inflation. Despite that, RHAM still ranks 6th of 8 on per-pupil spending in 2024–25.