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Public school / Primary

Polk School

Oakville, Connecticut

NCES ID
090489001005
District
Watertown School District
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Polk School is a public primary school in Oakville, Connecticut, run by Watertown School District. It enrols 321 students — the 62685th largest of 1,025 public schools in Connecticut.

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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

321students

62685th nationally, tied with 133

Teachers

24.0FTE

55524th nationally, tied with 2,299

Students per teacher

13.4students

32055th nationally, tied with 927

Free or reduced-price lunch

43.9%percent

56699th nationally, tied with 99

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.

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Within Watertown 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Watertown High School735 students
  2. 2John Trumbull Primary School639 students
  3. 3Swift Middle School584 students
  4. 4Polk School321 students
  5. 5Fletcher W. Judson School287 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Connecticut median across 1,025 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−27.2%
  • Teachers−31.4%
  • Students per teacher+13.6%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+10.4%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.