Shepard Hill Elementary School

Shepard Hill Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary-level community in Plainfield, Connecticut, part of Plainfield School District. The school instructs 392 students in grades pre-K through 3.

Within Plainfield School District, which oversees 5 schools and 1,872 students, Shepard Hill Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Shepard Hill Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Beyond that, the school logs 8% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region (around 42%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region) records that median household income runs about $90,589, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Shepard Hill Elementary School is one of 34 public schools in Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 11,909 students).

Plainfield High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Shepard Hill Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Shepard Hill Elementary School has contracted 4%, going from 410 students in 2018 to 392 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.