John B. Stanton School

Located at 386 New London Tpke., in Norwich, Connecticut, John B. Stanton School is an average-sized elementary-level community that hosts 382 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Norwich School District.

John B. Stanton School is one of 9 schools operated by Norwich School District, a district that hosts 3,160 students overall.

On the student-mix side, John B. Stanton School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 23% White, 20% Black, 10% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 15% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,586 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. John B. Stanton School is one of 88 public schools in Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 36,605 students).

Nearest neighbor: Teachers' Memorial Global Studies Magnet Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around John B. Stanton School.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at John B. Stanton School has ticked up 16%, going from 330 students in 2018 to 382 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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