John Read Middle School

Located at 486 Redding Road, in Redding, Connecticut, John Read Middle School is a cozy junior high that serves 381 students (grades 5 through 8), overseen by Redding School District. By comparison, Connecticut's public schools average about 521 students each, so John Read Middle School sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Redding School District (852 students total), John Read Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, John Read Middle School reports that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 61% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.3:1 average. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Western Connecticut Planning Region runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, Western Connecticut Planning Region reports that median household earnings sit near $128,188, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. John Read Middle School is one of 149 public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 90,520 students).

Redding Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at John Read Middle School has declined 10%, going from 422 students in 2018 to 381 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 6% to 12%.

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