Jennings School

Jennings School operates as a modestly sized K-5 school in Fairfield, Connecticut, run under Fairfield School District. Current enrollment sits at 280 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% smaller than the state mean of about 378.

Fairfield School District runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 8,790 students. Jennings School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Jennings School shows that 70% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 12% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region as a whole is about 56% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Jennings School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Greater Bridgeport Planning Region (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Greater Bridgeport Planning Region) logs that median household earnings sit near $89,667, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region runs 91 public schools (combined enrollment of about 50,880 students), of which Jennings School is one.

Fairfield Woods Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jennings School.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 3%: 289 students in 2018 compared to 280 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 70% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.