Hopewell School

Hopewell School is an elementary school in South Glastonbury, Connecticut, reachable at (860) 652-7895. A total of 458 students attend the school, which covers kindergarten through 4. Against the 378-student average for elementary schools in Connecticut, enrollment here is 21% higher.

Besides Hopewell School, Glastonbury School District runs 7 other schools. The district enrolls 5,514 students.

At 67%, White students outnumber all other groups at Hopewell School combined. The school is also 17% Asian, 7% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. That is close to the 64% White share among all Capitol Planning Region residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Hopewell School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 52%.

Its 33.3 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 13.8:1. That ratio is over the 12.6:1 average for elementary schools in Connecticut. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 8%. Public schools in Capitol Planning Region average 43%.

Across Capitol Planning Region, median household income is about $93,394, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Hopewell School is among the 286 public schools in Capitol Planning Region.

The school nearest to Hopewell School is Gideon Welles School, at a distance of about 1.6 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

The number of students dropped from 542 to 458 over 4 years.

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