Laurel Literacy Academy

Set in Bloomfield, Connecticut, Laurel Literacy Academy is a close-knit elementary-level community, operated by Bloomfield School District. It hosts 247 students across grades pre-K through 2. By comparison, Connecticut's public schools average about 378 students each, so Laurel Literacy Academy sits 35% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Bloomfield School District, which oversees 7 schools and 1,834 students, Laurel Literacy Academy is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Laurel Literacy Academy lists that the largest single group is Black, at 64% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 20% Hispanic, 8% White, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Capitol Planning Region (around 43%), the school's rate is north of typical.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Capitol Planning Region) reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,394 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Capitol Planning Region runs 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 137,047 students), of which Laurel Literacy Academy is one.

Bloomfield High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Laurel Literacy Academy.

Laurel Literacy Academy operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Laurel Literacy Academy's enrollment has ticked down 33% since 2018, when it stood at 368 (now 247). Black enrollment moved from 79% to 64% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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