Killingly Memorial School

Killingly Memorial School is an elementary school of medium-sized scale in Danielson, Connecticut, run under Killingly School District, caters to 485 students in grades 2 through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 28% bigger than the state mean of about 378.

Killingly School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,238 students; Killingly Memorial School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Killingly Memorial School lists that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment; the rest reads as 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Killingly Memorial School records 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. The state averages about 12.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region shows median household income runs about $90,589, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,909 students), Killingly Memorial School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: H. H. Ellis Technical High School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Killingly Memorial School.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 5%: 509 students in 2018 compared to 485 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 81% to 76%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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