Stafford School

Among the schools in Bristol, Connecticut, is Stafford School, a medium-sized elementary school. The school's 353 students are in kindergarten through 5.

The district, Bristol School District, operates 13 schools serving 7,241 students.

Stafford School has no majority group; White students are the largest, at 44%. Beyond that, enrollment is 37% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% multiracial, and 3% Asian. In Naugatuck Valley Planning Region overall, about 64% of residents are White. Stafford School's diversity index is 66%, against a US figure of 70%.

The count of teachers at Stafford School is 29.5 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 12.0:1. That is close to the 12.6:1 average for elementary schools in Connecticut. The school counts 198 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 56%.

Stafford School is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 43% of Connecticut public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.

Naugatuck Valley Planning Region has these Census figures: the median household income is $86,191, roughly 34% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Naugatuck Valley Planning Region is home to 121 public schools and about 59,861 public school students.

The shortest distance from Stafford School to another public school is about 0.3 miles, to Bristol Eastern High School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

NCES describes the area around Stafford School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

2024-25 enrollment was 353, an 8% gain from 327 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.1:1 to 12.0:1 over the same years.

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