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Waterbury School District

Waterbury, Connecticut · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

18,776
Students enrolled
29
Public schools
1,461
Classroom teachers (FTE)
12.9:1
Students per teacher

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

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 932
  • Kindergarten 1,111
  • Grade 1 1,432
  • Grade 2 1,460
  • Grade 3 1,491
  • Grade 4 1,339
  • Grade 5 1,408
  • Grade 6 1,396
  • Grade 7 1,461
  • Grade 8 1,274
  • Grade 9 1,486
  • Grade 10 1,416
  • Grade 11 1,293
  • Grade 12 1,277

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 64%
  • Black or African American 21%
  • White 10%
  • Two or more races 4%
  • Asian 2%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <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

80% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 13,670 of 17,123 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 79%
  • 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

$20,824 spent per student on day-to-day operations Connecticut median: $24,991 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $11,309
  • Support services $8,002
  • Other (food service, etc.) $1,513

Where the money comes from

  • Local 23%
  • State 56%
  • Federal 21%

Total revenue $466.6 milliontotal spending $465.2 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)

City: Midsize

Total staff (FTE)

3,088

District office

236 Grand Street, Waterbury CT 06702

County

New Haven County

Official website

NCES District ID

904830

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About Waterbury School District

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

Mission The Waterbury Board of Education has pledged to make the Waterbury Public School District the LEADER in Connecticut for urban education reform, for performance improvement and for efficiency.
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