John Lyman School

John Lyman School operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in Middlefield, Connecticut, part of Regional School District 13. Current enrollment sits at 207 students spanning grades 2 through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 45% smaller than the state mean of about 378.

John Lyman School is one of 5 schools operated by Regional School District 13, a district that educates 1,302 students overall.

Demographically, John Lyman School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest comes out to 8% Hispanic.

On the resource side, John Lyman School shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region (around 32%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region put median household earnings sit near $104,428, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. John Lyman School is one of 57 public schools in Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 19,075 students).

Middlefield Memorial School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. John Lyman School's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 237 (now 207).

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