Shepherd Glen School

At 1 Skiff St. Ext. in Hamden, Connecticut, Shepherd Glen School operates as a small elementary school. It has an enrollment of 303 students in kindergarten through 6.

Hamden School District is responsible for 10 schools, Shepherd Glen School included, with 5,012 students in all.

Of every 100 students at Shepherd Glen School, about 39 are Black, the largest group. Smaller groups are 25% Hispanic, 16% White, 14% Asian, and 6% multiracial. For comparison, the population of South Central Connecticut Planning Region is roughly 14% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Shepherd Glen School scores 74%.

Its staff includes 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 11.7 students per teacher. The gap from the 12.6:1 average for elementary schools in Connecticut is 0.9 students per teacher. Roughly 56% of students at Shepherd Glen School can receive free or reduced-price lunch.

The county, South Central Connecticut Planning Region, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $88,197, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county's public schools total 152, with about 72,909 students.

Hamden Middle School is about 0.5 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Shepherd Glen School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles.

Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

The school's student count fell 4% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.

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