Lyme Consolidated School

Lyme Consolidated School is an elementary-level community of compact scale in Lyme, Connecticut, overseen by Regional School District 18, enrolling 226 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 378 students per school, that is 40% smaller than typical.

Lyme Consolidated School is one of 5 schools operated by Regional School District 18, a district that hosts 1,278 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lyme Consolidated School reports that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 23% of students at Lyme Consolidated School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region (around 32%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

In the area at large, census data for Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region shows the typical household earns roughly $104,428 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Lyme Consolidated School is one of 57 public schools in Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 19,075 students).

Deep River Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 12%: 201 students in 2018 compared to 226 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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