Public school / Primary
Bowers School
Manchester, Connecticut
- NCES ID
- 090231000417
- District
- Manchester School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Bowers School is a public primary school in Manchester, Connecticut, run by Manchester School District. It enrols 323 students — the 62402nd largest of 1,025 public schools in Connecticut.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
323
Teachers
32.0
Students per teacher
10.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
50.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Manchester School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Manchester High School1,673 students
- 2Illing Middle School846 students
- 3Elisabeth M. Bennet Academy843 students
- 4Waddell School461 students
- 5Verplanck School457 students
- 6Keeney School327 students
- 7Bowers School323 students
- 8Highland Park School318 students
- Enrollment−26.8%
- Teachers−8.6%
- Students per teacher−14.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+27.0%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory