Francis Walsh Intermediate School

Francis Walsh Intermediate School is a mid-sized middle school in Branford, Connecticut. There are 775 students enrolled, covering grades 5 through 8. On average, middle schools in Connecticut enroll around 521, and this school is 49% larger than that mark.

Branford School District (5 schools, 2,448 students) runs Francis Walsh Intermediate School.

White students are 65% of those enrolled at Francis Walsh Intermediate School. Beyond that, enrollment is 18% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% Asian, and 5% multiracial. That is in line with South Central Connecticut Planning Region, where about 62% of residents are White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 53, compared with 70 nationally.

For every teacher at Francis Walsh Intermediate School, there are about 10.8 students; the school has 72 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 11.3:1 average for middle schools in Connecticut is close to this figure. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 42%. Across public schools in South Central Connecticut Planning Region, the average is 51%.

On the allk12 Grade, Francis Walsh Intermediate School lands at B-, ahead of 46% of Connecticut public middle schools.

The school is in South Central Connecticut Planning Region, where the median household earns about $88,197 a year, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Across South Central Connecticut Planning Region, 152 public schools serve about 72,909 students.

Mary R. Tisko School, about 0.4 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Francis Walsh Intermediate School, there are at least 8 other public schools.

NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment was 775 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 824. The ratio of students to teachers went from 11.9:1 to 10.8:1 over the same years.

This page is set up for the Francis Walsh Intermediate School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.