NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools CT

Best-Resourced Schools in Wallingford, CT

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11 public K-12 schools in Wallingford 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
4,822
Students
55.6/100
Avg Resource Index
10.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Wallingford has more public-school enrollment than 54% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Wallingford lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Wallingford's list includes 3 elementary, 2 middle, and 2 high-school campuses, plus 4 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Wallingford's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 96th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 25-point gap between Mark T. Sheehan High School and Moses Y. Beach School measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 46%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
96th percentile
Teacher staffing
97th percentile

Lyman Hall High School accounts for 19.4% of all Wallingford public-school enrollment

That concentration means Wallingford-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

Wallingford school enrollment varies 3.5× across entities

Wallingford school enrollment ranges from 267 students (lowest) to 936 students (highest), a spread of 669 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

Wallingford operates one school district — a single-district system

Wallingford'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

Wallingford student-teacher ratio is 10.5:1 — 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. Mark T. Sheehan High School 65
2. Pond Hill School 64
3. James H. Moran Middle School 63
4. Parker Farms School 61
5. Rock Hill School 60
6. Dag Hammarskjold Middle School 58
7. Lyman Hall High School 57
8. Highland School 50
9. Cook Hill School 49
10. Evarts C. Stevens School 45
11. Moses Y. Beach School 40

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Wallingford

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 Parker Farms School 54.8/100
  2. 2 Mark T. Sheehan High School 52.6/100
  3. 3 Dag Hammarskjold Middle School 49.9/100
  4. 4 Pond Hill School 49.8/100
  5. 5 Evarts C. Stevens School 49.6/100

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Which Wallingford school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Mark T. Sheehan High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Wallingford schools in this federal-data comparison at 65/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Wallingford, CT? ▼

Wallingford has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,822 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.5:1.

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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.