Samuel Staples Elementary School

Easton, Connecticut, is home to Samuel Staples Elementary School, a high-enrollment elementary school. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 606 students in pre-K through 5. Against the 378-student average for elementary schools in Connecticut, enrollment here is 60% higher.

Samuel Staples Elementary School is a school in Easton School District. The district has 2 schools and 893 students.

At 74%, White students outnumber all other groups at Samuel Staples Elementary School combined. The school is also 10% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. The White share of the county population is lower, at 56%. The chance that two students picked at random at Samuel Staples Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 43%.

The school employs the equivalent of 54.5 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 11.1:1. Among elementary schools in Connecticut, the typical ratio is 12.6:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 7%. That is lower than the 54% average for public schools in Greater Bridgeport Planning Region.

Within Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, median household income is about $89,667, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Federal data list 91 public schools in Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, with a combined enrollment of about 50,880.

The closest public school, Helen Keller Middle School, is about 1.0 miles from Samuel Staples Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

In the federal locale system, Samuel Staples Elementary School is coded Rural: Fringe, for schools in rural territory close to an urban area.

The 2024-25 enrollment of 606 was 12% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 539.

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