Booker T. Washington Academy

Booker T. Washington Academy is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in New Haven, Connecticut, part of Booker T. Washington Academy District, teacheing 404 students in grades K through 8.

Booker T. Washington Academy sits inside Booker T. Washington Academy District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Booker T. Washington Academy logs that 75% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Booker T. Washington Academy has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above South Central Connecticut Planning Region's rate of about 51%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (South Central Connecticut Planning Region) shows that the typical household earns roughly $88,197 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, South Central Connecticut Planning Region runs 152 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,909 students), of which Booker T. Washington Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: New Haven Academy, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Booker T. Washington Academy.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. Booker T. Washington Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Booker T. Washington Academy has expanded 35%, going from 300 students in 2018 to 404 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 85% to 75% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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