DiLoreto Elementary & Middle School

Located at 732 Slater Rd., in New Britain, Connecticut, DiLoreto Elementary & Middle School is a sprawling primary school that educates 819 students (grades K through 8), run under New Britain School District. That puts it 117% bigger than the typical public school in Connecticut, which averages around 378 students.

Across the 14 schools in New Britain School District (9,012 students total), DiLoreto Elementary & Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, DiLoreto Elementary & Middle School shows that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 9% White, 7% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Capitol Planning Region runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Capitol Planning Region) reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,394 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Capitol Planning Region runs 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 137,047 students), of which DiLoreto Elementary & Middle School is one.

E. C. Goodwin Technical High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DiLoreto Elementary & Middle School.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 815 students in 2018 compared to 819 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 76% to 81%. Class-load math has rose: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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