NCES CCD 2024-25 14 schools CT

Best-Resourced Schools in New Britain, CT

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

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14
Schools
9,274
Students
42.9/100
Avg Resource Index
12.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, New Britain has more public-school enrollment than 78% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. New Britain 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 New Britain's 14 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 2 middle and 2 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 27-point gap between House of Arts Letters and Science (Hals) Academy and Vance Elementary School shows the range hidden by New Britain'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 22%
School count
Top 25%
Resource Index average
60th percentile
Teacher staffing
85th percentile

New Britain High School accounts for 27.2% of all New Britain public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means New Britain-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

New Britain school enrollment varies 17× across entities

New Britain school enrollment ranges from 152 students (lowest) to 2,521 students (highest), a spread of 2,369 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

New Britain reports 65.9% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. 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

New Britain student-teacher ratio is 12.4:1 — 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. House of Arts Letters and Science (Hals) Academy 61
2. New Britain High School 54
3. Northend Elementary School 46
4. Smith Elementary School 45
5. Lincoln Elementary School 44
6. Academy of Science and Innovation 43
7. Smalley Elementary School 43
8. Gaffney Elementary School 43
9. Pulaski Middle School 41
10. Diloreto Elementary & Middle School 38
11. E. C. Goodwin Technical High School 37
12. Jefferson Elementary School 37
13. Vance Elementary School 34
14. Chamberlain Elementary School 34

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in New Britain

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 House of Arts Letters and Science (Hals) Academy 64.2/100
  2. 2 Academy of Science and Innovation 62.5/100
  3. 3 E. C. Goodwin Technical High School 58.3/100
  4. 4 Gaffney Elementary School 58.3/100
  5. 5 Jefferson Elementary School 55.1/100

What do families ask about schools in New Britain?

Which New Britain school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

House of Arts Letters and Science (Hals) Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the New Britain schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in New Britain, CT? ▼

New Britain has 14 public schools with a total enrollment of 9,274 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.4:1.

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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.