Scotland Elementary School

Scotland Elementary School operates as a micro-enrollment elementary campus in Scotland, Connecticut, operated by Scotland School District. Current enrollment sits at 95 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Connecticut's public schools average about 378 students each, so Scotland Elementary School sits 75% leaner than that benchmark.

Scotland Elementary School is a school of Scotland School District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Scotland Elementary School records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 11% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region) shows that the typical household earns roughly $90,589 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,909 students), Scotland Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Parish Hill High School, around 3.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 20%: 119 students in 2018 compared to 95 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 119.0:1 in 2018 to 7.5:1 in 2025.

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