Bunker Hill School

Located at 170 Bunker Hill Ave., in Waterbury, Connecticut, Bunker Hill School is a medium-sized elementary school that enrolls 445 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Waterbury School District.

Within Waterbury School District, which oversees 29 schools and 17,123 students, Bunker Hill School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Bunker Hill School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 63%; the rest looks like 21% Black, 8% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Bunker Hill School reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 79% of students at Bunker Hill School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Naugatuck Valley Planning Region (around 52%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region put median household earnings sit near $86,191, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region runs 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,861 students), of which Bunker Hill School is one.

W. F. Kaynor Technical High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bunker Hill School.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Bunker Hill School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 448 (now 445). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 51% to 63% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.