Julia A. Stark School

Julia A. Stark School, a mid-sized elementary school in Stamford, Connecticut, run under Stamford School District, hosts 553 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 46% bigger than the state mean of about 378.

Stamford School District comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 15,483 students; Julia A. Stark School is among them.

Demographically, Julia A. Stark School logs that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 21% White, 10% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Western Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Western Connecticut Planning Region runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Western Connecticut Planning Region shows the typical household earns roughly $128,188 per year, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Western Connecticut Planning Region's 149 public schools (combined enrollment of about 90,520 students), Julia A. Stark School is one campus in the mix.

Strawberry Hill an ext. of Rogers International is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Julia A. Stark School has ticked down 8%, going from 603 students in 2018 to 553 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 49% to 63%.

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