David Wooster Middle School

Located at 150 Lincoln Street, in Stratford, Connecticut, David Wooster Middle School is a moderately sized junior high that educates 538 students (grades 7 through 8), one of the schools within Stratford School District.

Stratford School District comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 6,388 students; David Wooster Middle School is among them.

Looking at the student body, David Wooster Middle School records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 30% Black, 18% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, David Wooster Middle School records 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.3:1 average. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Greater Bridgeport Planning Region put median household income runs about $89,667, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Greater Bridgeport Planning Region's 91 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,880 students), David Wooster Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nichols 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 David Wooster Middle School.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 4%: 516 students in 2018 compared to 538 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 39% to 18% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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