Conte/West Hills Magnet School

In New Haven, Connecticut, Conte/West Hills Magnet School is a mid-sized elementary school. It is open to students in pre-K through 8 and enrolls 496 students. It has 31% more students than the average for elementary schools in Connecticut (about 378).

Conte/West Hills Magnet School is in New Haven School District, a district with 17,903 students across 37 schools.

The share of Hispanic students at Conte/West Hills Magnet School is 53%, a majority. Smaller groups are 34% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% White, and 4% Asian. For comparison, the population of South Central Connecticut Planning Region is roughly 20% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 60, compared with 70 nationally.

Conte/West Hills Magnet School has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 10.8:1. The school's 10.8:1 compares with an average of 12.6:1 for elementary schools in Connecticut. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 82%. The gap from the 51% average for public schools in South Central Connecticut Planning Region is 31 points.

Conte/West Hills Magnet School earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 11% of Connecticut public elementary schools.

In South Central Connecticut Planning Region, home to about 570,598 people, the median household earns about $88,197 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Conte/West Hills Magnet School shares South Central Connecticut Planning Region with 151 other public schools.

A public school about 0.3 miles away, Metropolitan Business Academy, is the closest to Conte/West Hills Magnet School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

Federal data place Conte/West Hills Magnet School in the City: Mid-size locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 25%, from 662 to 496. The number of students per teacher dropped from 15.4 to 10.8 over 4 years.

The allk12 page for Conte/West Hills Magnet School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.