Meadowside School

Meadowside School is one of the low-enrollment elementary-level communitys in Milford, Connecticut, overseen by Milford School District, with 276 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Connecticut, which averages around 378 students.

Within Milford School District, which oversees 13 schools and 5,110 students, Meadowside School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Meadowside School reports that 50% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 21% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 10% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, South Central Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Meadowside School reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 36% of students at Meadowside School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against South Central Connecticut Planning Region (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Around the school, the surrounding county (South Central Connecticut Planning Region) shows that the typical household earns roughly $88,197 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Meadowside School is one of 152 public schools in South Central Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 72,909 students).

Pumpkin Delight School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meadowside School has decreased 3%, going from 284 students in 2018 to 276 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked down from 31% to 15%.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.