NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools CT

Best-Resourced Schools in New London, CT

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

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11
Schools
3,856
Students
38/100
Avg Resource Index
11.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, New London has more public-school enrollment than 42% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. New London 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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

New London's list includes 5 elementary, 3 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

New London's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 37th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 93rd percentile. The 56-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.

City enrollment
Top 58%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
37th percentile
Teacher staffing
93rd percentile

New London High School accounts for 15.7% of all New London public-school enrollment

That concentration means New London-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 London school enrollment varies 4.5× across entities

New London school enrollment ranges from 133 students (lowest) to 605 students (highest), a spread of 472 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

New London reports 72.8% 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 London student-teacher ratio is 11.3:1 — 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. Harbor Elementary School 47
2. Nathan Hale Arts Magnet School 43
3. Interdistrict School for Arts and Communication 43
4. Winthrop Stem Elementary Magnet School 42
5. Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School 42
6. New London Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School 42
7. New London High School 37
8. Science and Technology Magnet Pathway for Middle Grades 36
9. Science and Technology Magnet Pathway for High School Grades 33
10. C.B. Jennings International Elementary Magnet 31
11. Regional Multicultural Magnet School 22

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in New London

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 New London Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School 71.4/100
  2. 2 Science and Technology Magnet Pathway for High School Grades 71.2/100
  3. 3 Science and Technology Magnet Pathway for Middle Grades 69.3/100
  4. 4 Winthrop Stem Elementary Magnet School 64.1/100
  5. 5 Nathan Hale Arts Magnet School 64.1/100

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

Harbor Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the New London schools in this federal-data comparison at 47/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in New London, CT? ▼

New London has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,856 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.3:1.

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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.