Kendall College & Career Academy

As a mid-sized elementary school, Kendall College & Career Academy serves students in Norwalk, Connecticut. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 416 students.

Norwalk School District includes 22 schools. Together they enroll 11,341 students.

About 71% of the student body at Kendall College & Career Academy is Hispanic. Other groups include 16% Black, 6% White, 3% Asian, and 2% multiracial. By comparison, Western Connecticut Planning Region residents are about 21% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 46, compared with 70 nationally.

Classroom staffing at Kendall College & Career Academy totals 38.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.8:1. The average for elementary schools in Connecticut is 12.6:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Kendall College & Career Academy is about 63%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region is 33%.

The school is in Western Connecticut Planning Region, where the median household earns about $128,188 a year, about 56% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Across Western Connecticut Planning Region, 149 public schools serve about 90,520 students.

Measured in a straight line, Ponus Ridge STEAM Academy is about 0.5 miles from Kendall College & Career Academy. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8.

Kendall College & Career Academy falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

The school's enrollment fell 12% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.8:1) than in 2020-21 (13.5:1).

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