Doolittle School

Doolittle School is an elementary school in Cheshire, Connecticut, according to federal school records. The school offers kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 529 students. Across elementary schools in Connecticut, the average enrollment is about 378.

Cheshire School District is the local district for Doolittle School. It runs 7 schools with 4,236 students.

Of every 100 students at Doolittle School, about 72 are White. After that, the student body is 10% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. The diversity index for Doolittle School is 46%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

Staffing at Doolittle School comes to 38.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.6:1. Elementary schools in Connecticut have an average ratio of 12.6:1. On the income side, 19% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Naugatuck Valley Planning Region average 52%.

American Community Survey estimates for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region show that the median household earns about $86,191 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Across Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, 121 public schools serve about 59,861 students.

Cheshire High School is the nearest public school to Doolittle School, about 1.1 miles away. Doolittle School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles.

In the federal locale system, Doolittle School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment figures show a rise of 100 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.

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