Sport and Medical Sciences Academy

Sport and Medical Sciences Academy is a four-year high school of small scale in Hartford, Connecticut, operated by Hartford School District, teacheing 463 students in grades 6 through 12. That puts it 41% below the typical public school in Connecticut, which averages around 788 students.

Hartford School District runs 41 schools in total, collectively educating 15,754 students. Sport and Medical Sciences Academy is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Sport and Medical Sciences Academy reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 27% Black, 10% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Capitol Planning Region as a whole is about 18% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Sport and Medical Sciences Academy has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.3:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Capitol Planning Region runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Around the school, census data for Capitol Planning Region shows median household earnings sit near $93,394, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Capitol Planning Region's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 137,047 students), Sport and Medical Sciences Academy is one campus in the mix.

Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts High School - Full Day is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sport and Medical Sciences Academy.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Sport and Medical Sciences Academy's enrollment has edged down 34% since 2018, when it stood at 700 (now 463). White enrollment moved from 23% to 10% across the same window.

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