New Fairfield Middle School

New Fairfield Middle School, a moderately sized intermediate school in New Fairfield, Connecticut, run under New Fairfield School District, enrolls 464 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

New Fairfield Middle School is one of 4 schools operated by New Fairfield School District, a district that serves 2,607 students overall.

Looking at the student body, New Fairfield Middle School records that 72% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder breaks down as 21% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Western Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Western Connecticut Planning Region runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Western Connecticut Planning Region put median household earnings sit near $128,188, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. New Fairfield Middle School is one of 149 public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 90,520 students).

Nearest neighbor: New Fairfield High School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Fairfield Middle School has ticked down 11%, going from 523 students in 2018 to 464 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 83% to 72%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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