Reed Intermediate School

Reed Intermediate School is a medium-sized middle school that serves part of Newtown, Connecticut. The school enrolls 583 students, from grades 5 through 6.

Within Newtown School District, Reed Intermediate School is one of 7 schools. The district enrolls 3,784 students.

White students are the majority at Reed Intermediate School, with 80% of enrollment. Smaller groups are 14% Hispanic, 3% Black, and 2% Asian. Western Connecticut Planning Region's residents are about 61% White, 18 points below the school's share. Reed Intermediate School's diversity index is 34%, against a US figure of 70%.

The school employs the equivalent of 49.8 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 11.7:1. That matches the 11.3:1 average for middle schools in Connecticut fairly closely. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 17%. Public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region average 33%.

Across Western Connecticut Planning Region, the median household income is $128,188, roughly 56% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Western Connecticut Planning Region is home to 149 public schools and about 90,520 public school students.

Newtown Middle School is located about 0.8 miles from Reed Intermediate School. The five-mile area around Reed Intermediate School holds 6 other public schools.

In the federal locale system, Reed Intermediate School is coded Suburb: Mid-size, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Enrollment at Reed Intermediate School was 582 in 2020-21 and 583 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. The number of students per teacher fell from 14.2 to 11.7 over 4 years.

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