Mile Creek School

Old Lyme, Connecticut, is home to Mile Creek School, a medium-sized elementary school. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend, and enrollment is 334 students.

Mile Creek School is part of a district of 5 schools: Regional School District 18, with 1,278 students.

White students make up 87% of enrollment at Mile Creek School. The remaining students are 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, and 2% Asian. Mile Creek School's diversity index is 24%, against a US figure of 70%.

The teaching staff at Mile Creek School is 25.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 13.0:1. That matches the 12.6:1 average for elementary schools in Connecticut fairly closely. About 10% of students, or 32, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 32% average among public schools in Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region.

Measured against Connecticut public elementary schools, Mile Creek School receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.

Recent Census Bureau figures for Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region show that the median household income is $104,428, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Mile Creek School is one of 57 public schools in the county.

The shortest distance from Mile Creek School to another public school is about 2.6 miles, to Lyme-Old Lyme High School. Other public schools within five miles: 5.

NCES assigns Mile Creek School the locale Rural: Fringe, meaning in rural territory close to an urban area.

Enrollment has grown by 64 students since 2020-21, to 334. By 2024-25, the school had 13.0 students per teacher, compared with 14.2 in 2020-21.

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