Stonington Middle School

Stonington Middle School operates as a small 6-8 campus in Pawcatuck, Connecticut, one of the schools within Stonington School District. Current enrollment sits at 366 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Connecticut's public schools average about 521 students each, so Stonington Middle School sits 30% smaller than that benchmark.

Stonington Middle School is one of 4 schools operated by Stonington School District, a district that works with 1,680 students overall.

Demographically, Stonington Middle School logs that nearly all students (84%) are White; the rest reads as 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region (around 50%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,586 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region runs 88 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,605 students), of which Stonington Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Stonington High School, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stonington Middle School has rose 3%, going from 357 students in 2018 to 366 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 84% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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