Sandy Hook Elementary School

Sandy Hook Elementary School sits in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, and is classified as an elementary school. Students in kindergarten through 4 attend, and enrollment is 349 students.

Newtown School District runs 7 schools with a combined 3,784 students. Sandy Hook Elementary School is one of them.

White students account for 75% of enrollment at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Enrollment also includes 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian, and 3% Black. The school's White share is 14 points above the 61% share among Western Connecticut Planning Region residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Sandy Hook Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 41%.

Staffing totals 28.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 12.3:1. Elementary schools in Connecticut average about 12.6:1, a similar figure. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Sandy Hook Elementary School is 18%. The average for public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region is 33%.

Census estimates describe Western Connecticut Planning Region this way: median household income is about $128,188, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Western Connecticut Planning Region number 149 and enroll about 90,520.

The shortest distance from Sandy Hook Elementary School to another public school is about 0.8 miles, to Newtown High School. The five-mile area around Sandy Hook Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools.

NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Mid-size. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 349, starting from 356.

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