Montowese Elementary School

As a low-enrollment K-5 school in North Haven, Connecticut, Montowese Elementary School caters to 305 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under North Haven School District.

Montowese Elementary School is one of 6 schools operated by North Haven School District, a district that educates 3,192 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Montowese Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment; the rest reads as 12% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% Black, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against South Central Connecticut Planning Region (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for South Central Connecticut Planning Region indicate median household income runs about $88,197, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Montowese Elementary School is one of 152 public schools in South Central Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 72,909 students).

Nearest neighbor: North Haven High School, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Montowese Elementary School.

Montowese Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 10%: 278 students in 2018 compared to 305 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 80% to 68% across the same window.

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