Mile Creek School

Mile Creek School, a moderately sized elementary school in Old Lyme, Connecticut, operated by Regional School District 18, instructs 334 students, covering grades K through 5.

Regional School District 18 comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,278 students; Mile Creek School is among them.

On demographics, Mile Creek School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%); the rest is composed of 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 2% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mile Creek School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 10% of students at Mile Creek School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region) shows that median household income runs about $104,428, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mile Creek School is one of 57 public schools in Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 19,075 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lyme-Old Lyme High School, around 2.6 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Mile Creek School's enrollment has ticked up 34% since 2018, when it stood at 250 (now 334). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.