Sterling Community School

Sterling Community School serves students in Sterling, Connecticut, as a low-enrollment elementary school. There are 301 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 8. That puts enrollment 20% below the 378-student average for elementary schools in Connecticut.

Sterling Community School is administered by Sterling School District.

The student body at Sterling Community School is 80% White. The rest of enrollment is 10% multiracial and 8% Hispanic. A diversity index of 35% means there is a 35% chance two randomly chosen students at Sterling Community School are from different groups.

Sterling Community School has 30.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 9.9:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Connecticut is 12.6:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 44% at Sterling Community School. The average for public schools in Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region is similar, at 42%.

Among Connecticut public elementary schools, Sterling Community School outscored 32%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.

Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $90,589 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Public schools in Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region number 34, with about 11,909 students.

Moosup Elementary School sits about 2.4 miles from Sterling Community School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are 3 other public schools.

On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Fringe.

Enrollment in 2024-25 was 301, close to the 307 recorded in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 9.9 students per teacher, compared with 11.0 in 2020-21.

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