Darien School District 鈥� Fairfield County, CT

Key statistics

4,673

Students enrolled

7

Public schools

430

Classroom teachers (FTE)

10.9:1

Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

Pre-K 105
Kindergarten 346
Grade 1 339
Grade 2 348
Grade 3 370
Grade 4 344
Grade 5 374
Grade 6 343
Grade 7 340
Grade 8 363
Grade 9 327
Grade 10 341
Grade 11 368
Grade 12 365

By race/ethnicity

White 80%
Hispanic/Latino 8%
Asian 7%
Two or more races 5%
Black or African American <1%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
Race not reported <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 108 of 4,649 students in the district's schools

Free lunch 2%
Reduced-price lunch <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$28,136 spent per student on day-to-day operations Connecticut median: $24,991 per student

Spending per student

Instruction $16,687
Support services $10,964
Other (food service, etc.) $485

Where the money comes from

Local 84%
State 15%
Federal <1%

Total revenue $153.6 milliontotal spending $153.2 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: Large

Total staff (FTE)

924

District office

2 Renshaw Road, Darien CT 06820

Phone

(203) 656-7400

County

Fairfield County

Official website

NCES District ID

901050

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About Darien School District

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The mission of the Darien Public Schools is to work cooperatively with families and the community to providee for its students a safe, supportive, respectful, and intellectually changelling learning environment that promotes personal excellence through active, collaborative and creative thinking and that stimulates individual development of the skills and integrity necessary to become productive members of society.

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