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Tolland Intermediate School
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CT Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardWhat this means: On the CT Smarter Balanced, Connecticut's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Connecticut schools, those numbers are about 51 and 46.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Tolland Intermediate School
Tolland Intermediate School is a mid-sized primary school in Tolland, Connecticut, part of Tolland School District. The school serves 483 students in grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Connecticut's public schools average about 378 students each, so Tolland Intermediate School sits 28% bigger than that benchmark.
Tolland School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,122 students; Tolland Intermediate School is among them.
On the student-mix side, Tolland Intermediate School lists that White students make up the majority at 78%; the rest reads as 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Capitol Planning Region) reports that median household income runs about $93,394, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Capitol Planning Region's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 137,047 students), Tolland Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Tolland Middle School, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Tolland Intermediate School's enrollment has decreased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 556 (now 483). The White share of enrollment contracted from 88% to 78% over that span.
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- Tolland Middle SchoolMiddle · 468 students
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