Orange Avenue School

Orange Avenue School is an elementary school in Milford, Connecticut, and it is part of Milford School District. The school counted 414 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 5.

Milford School District includes 13 schools. Together they enroll 5,110 students.

The share of White students at Orange Avenue School is 67%, a majority. Smaller groups are 17% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 51%.

Orange Avenue School reported 34.4 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 12.1:1. It is about the same as the 12.6:1 average for elementary schools in Connecticut. Roughly 28% of students at Orange Avenue School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 51% average among public schools in South Central Connecticut Planning Region.

On the allk12 Grade, Orange Avenue School lands at B, ahead of 64% of Connecticut public elementary schools.

The county, South Central Connecticut Planning Region, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $88,197 a year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Orange Avenue School, South Central Connecticut Planning Region has 152 public schools.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Mathewson School, is about 0.6 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools.

The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 5% gain, from 396 to 414. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 10.4:1 in 2020-21 to 12.1:1 in 2024-25.

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