John Paterson School

John Paterson School is a mid-sized elementary school with its address in Newington, Connecticut. Students in pre-K through 4 make up the school's enrollment of 394 students.

The 7 schools in Newington School District enroll 3,828 students altogether, John Paterson School among them.

More than half of enrollment at John Paterson School is White: 55%. The next largest groups are 27% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 6% Black, and 4% multiracial. The school's White share is 9 points below the 64% share among Capitol Planning Region residents. The diversity index for John Paterson School is 61%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

A staff of 33.6 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 11.7:1. Across elementary schools in Connecticut, the average ratio is 12.6:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 36%.

Among Connecticut public elementary schools, John Paterson School outscored 49%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.

Capitol Planning Region is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $93,394 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Public schools in Capitol Planning Region number 286, with about 137,047 students.

John Wallace Middle School is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of John Paterson School, there are at least 8 other public schools.

NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment went from 389 in 2020-21 to 394 in 2024-25, a change of 5 students. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 13.0:1 in 2020-21 to 11.7:1 in 2024-25.

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