Skinner Road School

As a reasonably sized primary school in Vernon, Connecticut, Skinner Road School caters to 340 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Vernon School District.

Vernon School District comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,181 students; Skinner Road School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Skinner Road School logs that the largest single group is White at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 11% Black, 10% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. Roughly 53% of students at Skinner Road School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Capitol Planning Region runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Capitol Planning Region indicate the typical household earns roughly $93,394 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Capitol Planning Region's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 137,047 students), Skinner Road School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rockville High School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Skinner Road School.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Skinner Road School has held roughly steady, going from 334 students in 2018 to 340 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 44% to 36% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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