Wish Museum School

Wish Museum School is a K-5 school of small scale in Hartford, Connecticut, one of the schools within Hartford School District, hosting 297 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Connecticut's public schools average about 378 students each, so Wish Museum School sits 21% below that benchmark.

Hartford School District runs 41 schools in total, collectively educating 15,754 students. Wish Museum School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Wish Museum School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. Other groups include 32% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 18% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. The state averages about 12.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Capitol Planning Region's rate of about 43%.

In the broader community, Capitol Planning Region reports that median household earnings sit near $93,394, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Capitol Planning Region's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 137,047 students), Wish Museum School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Achievement First Hartford Academy, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Wish Museum School operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Wish Museum School's enrollment has decreased 25% since 2018, when it stood at 395 (now 297). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 38% to 32% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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