Discovery Academy

As a moderately sized elementary school in Wethersfield, Connecticut, Discovery Academy educates 522 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Capitol Region Education Council. That puts it 38% bigger than the typical public school in Connecticut, which averages around 378 students.

Capitol Region Education Council comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 8,762 students; Discovery Academy is among them.

Looking at the student body, Discovery Academy shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 21% White, 16% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Capitol Planning Region as a whole is about 18% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at Discovery Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Capitol Planning Region (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Capitol Planning Region put 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. Discovery Academy is one of 286 public schools in Capitol Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 137,047 students).

Nearest neighbor: Charles Wright School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 518 students in 2018 compared to 522 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 35% to 51%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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