Bradley School
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CT Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the CT Smarter Balanced, Connecticut's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Connecticut schools, those numbers are about 51 and 46.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Bradley School
Bradley School is a tight-knit elementary school in Derby, Connecticut, run under Derby School District. The school caters to 244 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 35% leaner than the state mean of about 378.
Within Derby School District, which oversees 5 schools and 1,289 students, Bradley School is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Bradley School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 33% White, 15% Black, 10% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.6:1, putting Bradley School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region indicate median household earnings sit near $86,191, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region runs 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,861 students), of which Bradley School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Ansonia High School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bradley School.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Bradley School's enrollment has decreased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 279 (now 244). White enrollment moved from 52% to 33% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.
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