Skinner Road School
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CT Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the CT Smarter Balanced, Connecticut's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Connecticut schools, those numbers are about 51 and 46.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About 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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