Orange Avenue School

Orange Avenue School, an average-sized primary school in Milford, Connecticut, run under Milford School District, educates 414 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Milford School District comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 5,110 students; Orange Avenue School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Orange Avenue School reports that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 17% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of South Central Connecticut Planning Region's rate of about 51%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for South Central Connecticut Planning Region put the typical household earns roughly $88,197 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, South Central Connecticut Planning Region runs 152 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,909 students), of which Orange Avenue School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mathewson School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Orange Avenue School.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 5%: 395 students in 2018 compared to 414 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 80% to 67% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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