Wakelee School

Wakelee School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Wolcott, Connecticut. It reported 366 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.

Wakelee School is one school in a 5-school district, Wolcott School District, which enrolls 2,060 students.

White students are 71% of those enrolled at Wakelee School. The rest of enrollment is 17% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 46%.

The school has 32.2 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 11.4 students per teacher. Statewide, elementary schools in Connecticut average 12.6:1. Of all students at Wakelee School, 37% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Naugatuck Valley Planning Region report 52%.

In the wider Naugatuck Valley Planning Region area, median household income comes to about $86,191, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Naugatuck Valley Planning Region's 121 public schools enroll about 59,861 students and include Wakelee School.

Among nearby public schools, Wilby High School is closest at about 0.9 miles. Wakelee School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles.

NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Mid-size. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Federal data show 362 students in 2020-21 and 366 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%. The ratio was 12.5:1 in 2020-21 and 11.4:1 in 2024-25.

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