Toquam Magnet School

Toquam Magnet School is a medium-sized elementary school based in Stamford, Connecticut. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 532 students. The average among elementary schools in Connecticut is roughly 378 students; this school is 41% larger than that.

Toquam Magnet School is one school in a 21-school district, Stamford School District, which enrolls 15,483 students.

Hispanic students make up a majority at Toquam Magnet School, at 70%. Next come 12% White, 11% Black, 3% Asian, and 2% multiracial. That compares with about 21% Hispanic among all Western Connecticut Planning Region residents. Toquam Magnet School's diversity index is 47%, against a US figure of 70%.

Teachers at the school number 44.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.0:1. That is close to the 12.6:1 average for elementary schools in Connecticut. Roughly 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 33% for public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region.

According to the American Community Survey, in Western Connecticut Planning Region, the median household income is $128,188, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 56% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. There are 149 public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region, enrolling about 90,520 students in all.

The next-closest public school is Dolan School, less than a tenth of a mile away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

By NCES locale, the school is City: Mid-size, or inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Enrollment declined 12% from its 2020-21 level of 604. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 10.1:1 to 12.0:1.

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