Hamilton Avenue School

Hamilton Avenue School is an intimate elementary campus in Greenwich, Connecticut, run under Greenwich School District. The school instructs 299 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 21% smaller than the state mean of about 378.

Greenwich School District runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 8,377 students. Hamilton Avenue School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Hamilton Avenue School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 31% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Western Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Hamilton Avenue School shows 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at Hamilton Avenue School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Western Connecticut Planning Region runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Western Connecticut Planning Region put the typical household earns roughly $128,188 per year, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Hamilton Avenue School is one of 149 public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 90,520 students).

Western Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Hamilton Avenue School's enrollment has fell 18% since 2018, when it stood at 366 (now 299). Black enrollment moved from 10% to 4% across the same window.

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