Chippens Hill Middle School

Located at 551 Peacedale St., in Bristol, Connecticut, Chippens Hill Middle School is a medium-sized intermediate school that enrolls 545 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Bristol School District.

Bristol School District runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 7,241 students. Chippens Hill Middle School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Chippens Hill Middle School logs that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 38% Hispanic, 9% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the income-and-resources front, Chippens Hill Middle School logs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 60% of students at Chippens Hill Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region runs at roughly 52%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region shows 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%. Across Naugatuck Valley Planning Region's 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,861 students), Chippens Hill Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is West Bristol School, roughly 1.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Chippens Hill Middle School operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Chippens Hill Middle School's enrollment has decreased 25% since 2018, when it stood at 725 (now 545). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 55% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Chippens Hill Middle School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.