Voluntown Elementary School

Voluntown Elementary School is an elementary-level community of tight-knit scale in Voluntown, Connecticut, part of Voluntown School District, works with 216 students in grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 43% smaller than the typical public school in Connecticut, which averages around 378 students.

Voluntown Elementary School sits inside Voluntown School District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Voluntown Elementary School reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.6:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region shows median household earnings sit near $90,589, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,909 students), of which Voluntown Elementary School is one.

Griswold Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Voluntown Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 22% since 2018, when it stood at 276 (now 216).

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