Public school / Primary
Discovery Academy
Wethersfield, Connecticut
- NCES ID
- 090070001597
- District
- Capitol Region Education Council
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Discovery Academy is a public primary school in Wethersfield, Connecticut, run by Capitol Region Education Council. It enrols 520 students — the 34939th 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
520
Teachers
35.0
Students per teacher
14.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
62.1%
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 Capitol Region Education Council
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.
- 1Ana Grace Academy of the Arts863 students
- 2Academy of Aerospace and Engineering768 students
- 3Academy of Science and Innovation756 students
- 4Academy of International Studies 6-12709 students
- 5Academy of Computer Science and and Engineering Middle Schoo642 students
- 6Academy of Aerospace and Engineering Elementary578 students
- 7Discovery Academy520 students
- 8Reggio Magnet School of the Arts514 students
- Enrollment+17.9%
- Teachers0.0%
- Students per teacher+26.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+56.2%
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