Lake Street School

Lake Street School is a small elementary school with an address in Vernon, Connecticut. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend, and enrollment is 235 students. The typical figure for elementary schools in Connecticut is about 378 students.

Vernon School District enrolls 3,181 students in 7 schools, including Lake Street School.

Lake Street School is 59% White by enrollment. Other students are 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 9% Asian, and 4% Black. The school's diversity index is 60%, meaning two students picked at random have a 60% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

With 22.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Lake Street School was 10.6:1. This ratio sits 2.0 below the 12.6:1 average for elementary schools in Connecticut. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 42%. That tracks the 43% average for public schools in Capitol Planning Region.

Measured against Connecticut public elementary schools, Lake Street School receives a B. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.

County data help place the school in context: in Capitol Planning Region, the median household income is $93,394, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Capitol Planning Region is home to 286 public schools and about 137,047 public school students.

Buckley School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles away. The five-mile area around Lake Street School holds at least 8 other public schools.

Locale data from NCES put Lake Street School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).

Enrollment has grown by 37 students since 2020-21, to 235.

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