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Hamden School District

Hamden, Connecticut · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

5,464
Students enrolled
10
Public schools
430
Classroom teachers (FTE)
12.7:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 273
  • Kindergarten 285
  • Grade 1 368
  • Grade 2 340
  • Grade 3 389
  • Grade 4 382
  • Grade 5 421
  • Grade 6 386
  • Grade 7 413
  • Grade 8 451
  • Grade 9 476
  • Grade 10 405
  • Grade 11 418
  • Grade 12 457

By race/ethnicity

  • Black or African American 33%
  • Hispanic/Latino 30%
  • White 24%
  • Two or more races 7%
  • Asian 7%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <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

46% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 2,285 of 5,012 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 39%
  • Reduced-price lunch 7%

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

$27,043 spent per student on day-to-day operations Connecticut median: $24,991 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $17,315
  • Support services $7,959
  • Other (food service, etc.) $1,768

Where the money comes from

  • Local 62%
  • State 34%
  • Federal 4%

Total revenue $173.0 milliontotal spending $173.4 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)

1,084

District office

60 Putnam Avenue, Hamden CT 06517

County

New Haven County

Official website

NCES District ID

901860

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About Hamden School District

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The mission of Hamden Public Schools is to ensure all our students learn to the best of their potential each and every day they are entrusted to our care.
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