NCES CCD 2024-25 16 schools CT

Best-Resourced Schools in East Hartford, CT

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16 public K-12 schools in East Hartford from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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16
Schools
8,182
Students
44.9/100
Avg Resource Index
12.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, East Hartford has more public-school enrollment than 74% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. East Hartford sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

8 of East Hartford's 16 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 3 middle and 3 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 35-point gap between Governor William Pitkin School and East Hartford Middle School shows the range hidden by East Hartford's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 26%
School count
Top 21%
Resource Index average
70th percentile
Teacher staffing
88th percentile

East Hartford High School accounts for 21.7% of all East Hartford public-school enrollment

That concentration means East Hartford-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

East Hartford school enrollment varies 8.9× across entities

East Hartford school enrollment ranges from 200 students (lowest) to 1,776 students (highest), a spread of 1,576 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

East Hartford reports 58.1% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

East Hartford student-teacher ratio is 12.1:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Governor William Pitkin School 60
2. Dr. Thomas S. O'connell School 58
3. Connecticut Ib Academy 58
4. East Hartford High School 51
5. Robert J. O'brien School 50
6. Dr. John a. Langford School 50
7. Dr. Franklin H. Mayberry School 50
8. Silver Lane School 44
9. Sunset Ridge Middle School 43
10. Academy of Computer Science and and Engineering Middle Schoo 42
11. Joseph O. Goodwin School 42
12. Anna E. Norris School 42
13. Connecticut River Academy at Goodwin University 40
14. Pathways Academy of Technology and Design 37
15. Riverside Magnet School at Goodwin University 27
16. East Hartford Middle School 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in East Hartford

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Connecticut Ib Academy 73.0/100
  2. 2 Governor William Pitkin School 71.7/100
  3. 3 Joseph O. Goodwin School 67.8/100
  4. 4 Sunset Ridge Middle School 67.3/100
  5. 5 Dr. Thomas S. O'connell School 66.4/100

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Which East Hartford school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Governor William Pitkin School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the East Hartford schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in East Hartford, CT? ▼

East Hartford has 16 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,182 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.1:1.

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Side-by-side: Compare any two schools or districts in Connecticut →

Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.