Head O'Meadow Elementary School

Head O'Meadow Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Newtown School District, located in Newtown, Connecticut. It offers kindergarten through 4 and has 327 students enrolled.

The 7 schools in Newtown School District enroll 3,784 students altogether, Head O'Meadow Elementary School among them.

At Head O'Meadow Elementary School, 84% of students are White. After that, the student body is 12% Hispanic and 3% Black. Census figures show Western Connecticut Planning Region is about 61% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Head O'Meadow Elementary School scores 28%.

Head O'Meadow Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1, with 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 12.6:1 average for elementary schools in Connecticut, this school's ratio is lower. The school has 8% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 33% average for public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region, the school's rate is lower.

The school is in Western Connecticut Planning Region, where median household income comes to about $128,188, roughly 56% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Western Connecticut Planning Region's 149 public schools enroll about 90,520 students and include Head O'Meadow Elementary School.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Reed Intermediate School, is about 2.0 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

Head O'Meadow Elementary School has an NCES locale of Rural: Fringe.

Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 14%, from 287 to 327.

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