Sandy Hook Elementary School

Sandy Hook Elementary School is one of the mid-sized primary schools in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, overseen by Newtown School District, with 349 students on its rolls from grades K through 4.

Newtown School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,784 students; Sandy Hook Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Sandy Hook Elementary School shows that 75% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Western Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 61% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Sandy Hook Elementary School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Western Connecticut Planning Region (around 33%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Western Connecticut Planning Region) reports that median household earnings sit near $128,188, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Sandy Hook Elementary School is one of 149 public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 90,520 students).

Nearest neighbor: Newtown High School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sandy Hook Elementary School has decreased 9%, going from 383 students in 2018 to 349 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 85% to 75% across the same window.

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