SAND School

SAND School is one of the intimate K-5 schools in Hartford, Connecticut, one of the schools within Hartford School District, with 266 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 30% smaller than the state mean of about 378.

SAND School is one of 41 schools operated by Hartford School District, a district that teaches 15,754 students overall.

In terms of who attends, SAND School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 27% Black, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Capitol Planning Region's rate of about 43%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Capitol Planning Region indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,394 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Capitol Planning Region's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 137,047 students), SAND School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hartford PreKindergarten Magnet School: North Campus, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SAND School.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. SAND School's enrollment has edged down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 358 (now 266). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 34% to 27%.

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