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North Haven, Connecticut - 3 schools
1,740
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
Middle, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Area Cooperative Educational Services operates 3 public schools serving 1,740 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Connecticut. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 middle, 1 elementary, 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in South Central Connecticut Planning Region.
The funding mix is 72.3% local, 21.4% state, and 6.3% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 347.1:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 58.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 39.7% Hispanic or Latino, 35.0% African American, 18.2% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Aces at Chase, with a diversity index of 69.6/100.
Its largest campus is Aces at Chase, enrolling 556 students (51% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is The Bridge at Aces, at 32 students, a 17x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Aces at Chase accounts for 32.0% of all Area Cooperative Educational Services student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Area Cooperative Educational Services-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: middle. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Area Cooperative Educational Services school enrollment varies 17× across entities
Area Cooperative Educational Services school enrollment ranges from 32 students (lowest) to 556 students (highest), a spread of 524 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Area Cooperative Educational Services student-counselor ratio is 347:1 — near the typical range (US average ~408) — within the typical range for U.S. public districts
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Variation between sub-units within Area Cooperative Educational Services is typically wider than the Area Cooperative Educational Services-aggregate figure suggests.
Area Cooperative Educational Services chronic absenteeism rate is 58.3% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Area Cooperative Educational Services's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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