Worthington Hooker School

Worthington Hooker School is one of the moderately sized elementary-level communitys in New Haven, Connecticut, part of New Haven School District, with 420 students on its rolls from grades K through 8.

Worthington Hooker School is one of 37 schools operated by New Haven School District, a district that caters to 17,903 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Worthington Hooker School records that the largest single group is Black at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 31% White, 20% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

Looking at school resources, Worthington Hooker School reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.6:1, putting Worthington Hooker School higher than the state norm the norm. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against South Central Connecticut Planning Region (around 51%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for South Central Connecticut Planning Region indicate the typical household earns roughly $88,197 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Worthington Hooker School is one of 152 public schools in South Central Connecticut Planning Region (combined enrollment of about 72,909 students).

Nearest neighbor: Wilbur Cross High School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Worthington Hooker School.

Worthington Hooker School operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Worthington Hooker School has contracted 6%, going from 449 students in 2018 to 420 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 13% to 32% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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