Long Meadow Elementary School

Long Meadow Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in Middlebury, Connecticut, overseen by Regional School District 15, with 518 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 37% above the state mean of about 378.

Regional School District 15 runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,345 students. Long Meadow Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Long Meadow Elementary School lists that 76% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 13% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Naugatuck Valley Planning Region (around 52%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Naugatuck Valley Planning Region indicate median household income runs about $86,191, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Long Meadow Elementary School is one of 121 public schools in Naugatuck Valley Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 59,861 students).

The closest other public school is Pomperaug Regional High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 506 students in 2018 compared to 518 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 76% across the same window.

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