NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools CT

Best-Resourced Schools in Stratford, CT

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

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13
Schools
6,388
Students
37.9/100
Avg Resource Index
14.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Stratford has more public-school enrollment than 66% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Stratford 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 Stratford's 13 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 40-point gap between Harry B. Flood Middle School and Stratford Academy - Victoria Soto School shows the range hidden by Stratford'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 34%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
37th percentile
Teacher staffing
58th percentile

Stratford High School accounts for 18.0% of all Stratford public-school enrollment

That concentration means Stratford-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

Stratford school enrollment varies 7.5× across entities

Stratford school enrollment ranges from 154 students (lowest) to 1,150 students (highest), a spread of 996 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

Stratford operates one school district — a single-district system

Stratford's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Stratford student-teacher ratio is 14.7:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Stratford is typically wider than the Stratford-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Harry B. Flood Middle School 61
2. David Wooster Middle School 57
3. Second Hill Lane School 50
4. Stratford High School 37
5. Wilcoxson School 37
6. Bunnell High School 36
7. Franklin School 35
8. Eli Whitney School 34
9. Chapel School 34
10. Lordship School 33
11. Nichols School 30
12. Stratford Academy - Johnson House 28
13. Stratford Academy - Victoria Soto School 21

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Stratford

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 Chapel School 70.2/100
  2. 2 Stratford Academy - Victoria Soto School 69.7/100
  3. 3 Eli Whitney School 69.4/100
  4. 4 Bunnell High School 69.1/100
  5. 5 Lordship School 68.7/100

What do families ask about schools in Stratford?

Which Stratford school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Harry B. Flood Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Stratford 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 Stratford, CT? ▼

Stratford has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,388 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.7:1.

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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.