Hindley Elementary School

Families in Darien, Connecticut, are served by Hindley Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school. The school reports 411 students in pre-K through 5.

Darien School District runs Hindley Elementary School along with 6 other schools, enrolling 4,649 students in total.

The large majority of students at Hindley Elementary School, 83%, are White. Next come 8% Asian, 5% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. The county population is about 61% White. Hindley Elementary School has a diversity index of 30%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.

Hindley Elementary School employs 38.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 10.7:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Connecticut is 12.6:1, higher than at this school. Hindley Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 1%. That rate is below the 33% average among public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region.

Western Connecticut Planning Region has about 627,071 residents, and median household income is about $128,188, about 56% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 149 public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region, with a combined enrollment of about 90,520.

The nearest other public school, Middlesex Middle School, is about 1.1 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Hindley Elementary School.

Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Federal counts put enrollment at 429 in 2020-21 and 411 in 2024-25, a 4% decrease.

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