Public school / Primary
Reed School
Waterbury, Connecticut
- NCES ID
- 090483001613
- District
- Waterbury School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Reed School is a public primary school in Waterbury, Connecticut, run by Waterbury School District. It enrols 455 students — the 43166th 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
455
Teachers
39.0
Students per teacher
11.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
84.8%
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 Waterbury 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.
- 1Crosby High School1,400 students
- 2John F. Kennedy High School1,297 students
- 3Wilby High School1,157 students
- 4Michael F. Wallace Middle School1,062 students
- 5Waterbury Arts Magnet School821 students
- 6West Side Middle School817 students
- 7Waterbury Career Academy766 students
- 8North End Middle School692 students
- Enrollment+3.2%
- Teachers+11.4%
- Students per teacher−0.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+113.3%
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