Roaring Brook School

Roaring Brook School runs as a medium-sized elementary school in Avon, Connecticut. The school enrolls 461 students, from pre-K through 4. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Connecticut is about 378, so this school runs 22% above that.

Avon School District counts 2,978 students in its 5 schools, and Roaring Brook School is one of them.

White students are the majority at Roaring Brook School, with 67% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 10% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 5% Black. County-wide, about 64% of residents are White. The school's diversity index is 52%, meaning two students picked at random have a 52% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

The school reports 33.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 13.7 students per teacher. The school has more students per teacher than the 12.6:1 average for elementary schools in Connecticut. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 11%. It compares with 43% for public schools in Capitol Planning Region.

Capitol Planning Region has about 977,290 residents, and the median household income is $93,394, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Besides Roaring Brook School, Capitol Planning Region has 285 other public schools.

Nearby, Avon Middle School is about 1.3 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

Roaring Brook School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.

Enrollment at Roaring Brook School dropped 6% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 489 to 461 students. Federal data show the ratio rising from 12.5:1 to 13.7:1.

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