Norwalk Early Childhood Center

Norwalk Early Childhood Center is a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Norwalk, Connecticut, part of Norwalk School District. The school educates 187 students in grade pre-K. Compared to the state average of about 378 students per school, that is 51% smaller than typical.

Within Norwalk School District, which oversees 22 schools and 11,341 students, Norwalk Early Childhood Center is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Norwalk Early Childhood Center reports that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 15% Black, 14% White, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Western Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Western Connecticut Planning Region runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Western Connecticut Planning Region indicate the typical household earns roughly $128,188 per year, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Norwalk Early Childhood Center is one of 149 public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 90,520 students).

Wolfpit Integrated Arts Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Norwalk Early Childhood Center operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Norwalk Early Childhood Center has climbed 10%, going from 170 students in 2018 to 187 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 42% to 14% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 34.0:1 in 2018 to 26.7:1 today.

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