Hayestown Avenue School

Hayestown Avenue School is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in Danbury, Connecticut, one of the schools within Danbury School District, caters to 450 students in grades K through 5.

Hayestown Avenue School is one of 19 schools operated by Danbury School District, a district that caters to 11,833 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hayestown Avenue School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 13% White, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Western Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Hayestown Avenue School logs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.6:1, putting Hayestown Avenue School higher than the state norm the norm. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, Western Connecticut Planning Region reports that median household income runs about $128,188, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hayestown Avenue School is one of 149 public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 90,520 students).

Nearest neighbor: Henry Abbott Technical High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hayestown Avenue School.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 484 students in 2018 compared to 450 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 53% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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