Hamden Middle School

Hamden Middle School is a roomy 6-8 campus in Hamden, Connecticut, run under Hamden School District. The school works with 845 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Connecticut's public schools average about 521 students each, so Hamden Middle School sits 62% larger than that benchmark.

Within Hamden School District, which oversees 10 schools and 5,012 students, Hamden Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Hamden Middle School shows that the largest single group is Black at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 30% Hispanic, 24% White, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Hamden Middle School has 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for South Central Connecticut Planning Region indicate the typical household earns roughly $88,197 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Hamden Middle School is one of 152 public schools in South Central Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 72,909 students).

Nearest neighbor: Shepherd Glen School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 880 students in 2018 compared to 845 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 37% to 24%.

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