New Fairfield Elementary School

Students in New Fairfield, Connecticut, attend New Fairfield Elementary School, a large elementary school. It reports enrollment of 946 students in pre-K through 5. On average, elementary schools in Connecticut enroll around 378, and this school is 150% above that mark.

District-wide, New Fairfield School District has 4 schools and 2,607 students.

White students are 75% of those enrolled at New Fairfield Elementary School. Other reported shares: 17% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 61% White among all Western Connecticut Planning Region residents. A diversity index of 40% means there is a 40% chance two randomly chosen students at New Fairfield Elementary School are from different groups.

The school lists 77.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2:1. It is about the same as the 12.6:1 average for elementary schools in Connecticut. A total of 170 students, or 18%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region, the average is 33%.

On the allk12 Grade, New Fairfield Elementary School lands at B+, ahead of 72% of Connecticut public elementary schools.

In the wider Western Connecticut Planning Region area, the median household earns about $128,188 a year, about 56% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Across Western Connecticut Planning Region, 149 public schools serve about 90,520 students.

Consolidated School is less than a tenth of a mile from New Fairfield Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around New Fairfield Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools.

Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Mid-size: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

New Fairfield Elementary School had 470 students in 2020-21 and 946 in 2024-25, according to federal records. Those counts may cover different grade spans. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 12.2:1, from 11.2:1.

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