14 public K-12 schools in Meriden from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Meriden has more public-school enrollment than 77% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Meriden 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.
6 of Meriden's 14 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
Meriden's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 37th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 74th percentile. The 37-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.
Meriden school enrollment ranges from 357 students (lowest) to 1,291 students (highest), a spread of 934 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
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
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.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Hanover School | 48 |
| 2. | H. C. Wilcox Technical High School | 42 |
| 3. | Francis T. Maloney High School | 41 |
| 4. | Benjamin Franklin School | 41 |
| 5. | Edison Middle School | 39 |
| 6. | Lincoln Middle School | 39 |
| 7. | Israel Putnam School | 39 |
| 8. | Orville H. Platt High School | 38 |
| 9. | Washington Middle School | 38 |
| 10. | Roger Sherman School | 38 |
| 11. | John Barry School | 34 |
| 12. | Thomas Hooker School | 34 |
| 13. | Casimir Pulaski School | 33 |
| 14. | Nathan Hale School | 26 |
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.
Hanover School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Meriden schools in this federal-data comparison at 48/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Meriden has 14 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,789 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.4:1.
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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.
