Niantic Center School

Niantic Center School, located in Niantic, Connecticut, is a small elementary school. It teaches 198 students in kindergarten through 4. It has 48% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Connecticut (about 378).

Niantic Center School is one school in a 5-school district, East Lyme School District, which enrolls 2,411 students.

Of every 100 students at Niantic Center School, about 82 are White. The remaining students are 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 2% Asian. A diversity index of 32% means there is a 32% chance two randomly chosen students at Niantic Center School are from different groups.

Its staff includes 19.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 10.3 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Connecticut, 12.6:1, is higher. Niantic Center School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 19%. It compares with 50% for public schools in Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region.

For the population of Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, the median household earns about $86,586 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 8%. Across Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, 88 public schools serve about 36,605 students.

Lillie B. Haynes School is the nearest public school to Niantic Center School, about 1.8 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Mid-size, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 10%, from 220 to 198. The school's ratio dropped from 12.2:1 to 10.3:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.

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