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How Sandy Hook Elementary School compares
63% vs. 63% district avg
= 0 points matches Newtown School District
63% vs. 53% Connecticut avg
10 points above state average
365
Enrollment
11.1:1
Student:Teacher
63%
Proficiency Rate
17%
Free/Reduced Lunch

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About This School

Sandy Hook Elementary School is a elementary school located in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. The school serves 365 students. The student-to-teacher ratio is 11.1:1.

According to EDFacts assessment data, 63% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.

17% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

Sandy Hook Elementary School is part of the Newtown School District in Connecticut.

How This School Compares

Sandy Hook Elementary School has 365 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Newtown School District (554 students). Its 63% proficiency rate is 0 percentage points below the district average of 63%. Compared to the Connecticut state average of 53%, the school performs 10 points higher. With a 11.1:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sandy Hook Elementary School has 365 students enrolled. The student-to-teacher ratio is 11.1:1.

According to EDFacts data, 63% of students at Sandy Hook Elementary School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.

Sandy Hook Elementary School is part of the Newtown School District in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.

All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.

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School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.

The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.

The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.