Rawson School

Located at 260 Holcomb Street, in Hartford, Connecticut, Rawson School is a compact elementary school that caters to 198 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Hartford School District. By comparison, Connecticut's public schools average about 378 students each, so Rawson School sits 48% leaner than that benchmark.

Hartford School District comprises 41 schools with combined enrollment of 15,754 students; Rawson School is among them.

On demographics, Rawson School records that the largest single group is Black, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the resource side, On paper, Rawson School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at Rawson School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Capitol Planning Region runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, Capitol Planning Region reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,394 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Rawson School is one of 286 public schools in Capitol Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 137,047 students).

Montessori Magnet at Fisher School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rawson School.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 45%: 357 students in 2018 compared to 198 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment decreased from 81% to 68% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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