King's Highway Elementary School

Located at 125 Post Rd. West, in Westport, Connecticut, King's Highway Elementary School is a reasonably sized K-5 school that caters to 451 students (grades K through 5), run under Westport School District.

Westport School District runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,161 students. King's Highway Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, King's Highway Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment; the rest consists of 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian, 2% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.6:1, putting King's Highway Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 4% of students at King's Highway Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Western Connecticut Planning Region (around 33%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Western Connecticut Planning Region indicate the typical household earns roughly $128,188 per year, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Western Connecticut Planning Region's 149 public schools (combined enrollment of about 90,520 students), King's Highway Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Saugatuck Elementary School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around King's Highway Elementary School.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 3%: 463 students in 2018 compared to 451 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 4% to 11%.

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