Highcrest School

Located at 95 Highcrest Rd., in Wethersfield, Connecticut, Highcrest School is a reasonably sized primary school that hosts 429 students (grades pre-K through 6), operated by Wethersfield School District.

Wethersfield School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,386 students; Highcrest School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Highcrest School logs that 72% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, 3% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.6:1, putting Highcrest School higher than the state norm the norm. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Capitol Planning Region's rate of about 43%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Capitol Planning Region) reports that median household income runs about $93,394, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Capitol Planning Region's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 137,047 students), Highcrest School is one campus in the mix.

West Hill School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 444 students in 2018 compared to 429 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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