Griswold Soule Street Academy

Griswold Soule Street Academy is a tiny secondary school in Jewett City, Connecticut, one of the schools within Griswold School District. The school hosts 19 students in grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 98% below the state mean of about 788.

Across the 4 schools in Griswold School District (1,809 students total), Griswold Soule Street Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Griswold Soule Street Academy lists that 63% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 26% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region's rate of about 50%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region shows median household earnings sit near $86,586, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,605 students), of which Griswold Soule Street Academy is one.

Griswold Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Griswold Soule Street Academy.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 12%: 17 students in 2018 compared to 19 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 76% to 63% over that span.

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