Public school / Primary
Eli Whitney School
Enfield, Connecticut
- NCES ID
- 090147000242
- District
- Enfield School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Eli Whitney School is a public primary school in Enfield, Connecticut, run by Enfield School District. It enrols 339 students — the 60080th 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
339
Teachers
31.0
Students per teacher
10.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
47.8%
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 Enfield 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.
- 1Enfield High School1,490 students
- 2John F. Kennedy Middle School1,096 students
- 3Henry Barnard School365 students
- 4Prudence Crandall School341 students
- 5Eli Whitney School339 students
- 6Hazardville Memorial School329 students
- 7Enfield Street School285 students
- 8Edgar H. Parkman School269 students
- Enrollment−23.1%
- Teachers−11.4%
- Students per teacher−7.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+20.3%
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