Charles Wright School

Charles Wright School is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Wethersfield, Connecticut. The school counts 235 students across pre-K through 6. The typical figure for elementary schools in Connecticut is about 378 students.

The district, Wethersfield School District, operates 7 schools serving 3,386 students.

Charles Wright School is 54% White by enrollment. Other reported shares: 30% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% Asian, and 3% multiracial. That compares with about 64% White among all Capitol Planning Region residents. The school's diversity index is 61%, meaning two students picked at random have a 61% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 11.6:1, with 20.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 1.0 students per teacher below the 12.6:1 average for elementary schools in Connecticut. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 36% of enrollment.

Within Capitol Planning Region, the median household income is $93,394, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Besides Charles Wright School, Capitol Planning Region has 285 other public schools.

The nearest other public school, Discovery Academy, is about 0.4 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment is down 17% from 2020-21, when Charles Wright School had 282 students, to 2024-25, when it had 235. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 11.6:1, from 13.4:1.

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