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Old Lyme, Connecticut - 4 schools
1,410
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
-
Per-Pupil Spending
High, Elementary
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Learn operates 4 public schools serving 1,410 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Connecticut. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 high, 1 elementary, 1 combined 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 Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region.
The funding mix is 65.3% local, 24.1% state, and 10.6% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (13 AP courses district-wide), a 336.9:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 19.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 41.7% White, 33.1% Hispanic or Latino, 7.9% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is The Friendship School, with a diversity index of 69.8/100.
Regional Multicultural Magnet School accounts for 33.3% of all Learn student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Learn-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. 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.
Learn school enrollment varies 5.1× across entities
Learn school enrollment ranges from 92 students (lowest) to 469 students (highest), a spread of 377 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Learn student-counselor ratio is 337:1 — 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 Learn is typically wider than the Learn-aggregate figure suggests.
Learn chronic absenteeism rate is 19.9% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Learn is typically wider than the Learn-aggregate figure suggests.