Kendall College & Career Academy

Kendall College & Career Academy is an average-sized elementary school in Norwalk, Connecticut, run under Norwalk School District. The school teaches 416 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Norwalk School District, which oversees 22 schools and 11,341 students, Kendall College & Career Academy is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Kendall College & Career Academy lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 16% Black, 6% White, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. 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, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Western Connecticut Planning Region's rate of about 33%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Western Connecticut Planning Region shows the typical household earns roughly $128,188 per year, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Western Connecticut Planning Region runs 149 public schools (combined enrollment of about 90,520 students), of which Kendall College & Career Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ponus Ridge STEAM Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kendall College & Career Academy.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 18%: 506 students in 2018 compared to 416 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 64% to 71%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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