Public school / Primary
Veterans Park Elementary School
Ridgefield, Connecticut
- NCES ID
- 090381000781
- District
- Ridgefield School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Veterans Park Elementary School is a public primary school in Ridgefield, Connecticut, run by Ridgefield School District. It enrols 250 students — the 72280th 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
250
Teachers
20.0
Students per teacher
12.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
10.4%
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 Ridgefield 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.
- 1Ridgefield High School1,474 students
- 2Scotts Ridge Middle School525 students
- 3East Ridge Middle School495 students
- 4Barlow Mountain Elementary School371 students
- 5Ridgebury Elementary School359 students
- 6Scotland Elementary School341 students
- 7Branchville Elementary School336 students
- 8Farmingville Elementary School314 students
- Enrollment−43.3%
- Teachers−42.9%
- Students per teacher+5.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−73.8%
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