South Street School

As a moderately sized elementary school in Danbury, Connecticut, South Street School works with 372 students from grades K through 5, run under Danbury School District.

Within Danbury School District, which oversees 19 schools and 11,833 students, South Street School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, South Street School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 12% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Western Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, South Street School reports 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. The state averages around 12.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Western Connecticut Planning Region's rate of about 33%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Western Connecticut Planning Region put median household earnings sit near $128,188, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Western Connecticut Planning Region's 149 public schools (combined enrollment of about 90,520 students), South Street School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rogers Park Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around South Street School.

South Street School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. South Street School's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 408 (now 372). The White share of enrollment edged down from 19% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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