Ox Ridge Elementary School

Ox Ridge Elementary School, a large elementary school, is located in Darien, Connecticut. It has an enrollment of 625 students in pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Connecticut average about 378 students, which makes this school 65% bigger than average.

Ox Ridge Elementary School reports to Darien School District, which has 7 schools and 4,649 students.

Of every 100 students at Ox Ridge Elementary School, about 81 are White. Other students are 8% Hispanic, 6% Asian, and 4% multiracial. That is higher than the 61% White share among all Western Connecticut Planning Region residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 33%.

Ox Ridge Elementary School has 52.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 12.0:1. It is about the same as the 12.6:1 average for elementary schools in Connecticut. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 1%. That is 31 points below the 33% average for public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region.

Looking at the county, Western Connecticut Planning Region, median household income comes to about $128,188, about 56% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 149, with about 90,520 students.

A public school about 1.2 miles away, Darien High School, is the closest to Ox Ridge Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).

Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 40%, from 445 to 625. By 2024-25, the school had 12.0 students per teacher, compared with 10.6 in 2020-21.

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