Augusta Lewis Troup School

As a tight-knit elementary school in New Haven, Connecticut, Augusta Lewis Troup School educates 300 students from grades pre-K through 8, operated by New Haven School District. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in Connecticut, which averages around 378 students.

Within New Haven School District, which oversees 37 schools and 17,903 students, Augusta Lewis Troup School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Augusta Lewis Troup School lists that the most-represented group is Black (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 36% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, South Central Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against South Central Connecticut Planning Region (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Around the school, South Central Connecticut Planning Region reports that median household earnings sit near $88,197, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Augusta Lewis Troup School is one of 152 public schools in South Central Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 72,909 students).

Nearest neighbor: Amistad Academy, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Augusta Lewis Troup School.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Augusta Lewis Troup School's enrollment has contracted 36% since 2018, when it stood at 471 (now 300). Black enrollment moved from 54% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

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