East Hartford Middle School
East Hartford School District
School day
School starts at 8:00 AM and it ends at 2:45 PM. Students go to school 180 days a year. State law requires 180 days, and the state average is about 181 days.
Students get 30 minutes for lunch. They do not have recess.
Who goes here?
East Hartford Middle School serves students from Grade 6 to 8.
A total of 1101 students attended East Hartford Middle School in the 2013-14 school year. The breakdown by gender and race is below:
By Gender
Percentage by Race
Who teaches here?
The ratio of students versus certified staff is below, broken down by type of staff member.
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Student/Staff ratio
The total number of staff members is below.
Total Staff
The average age of general education teachers in 2012 was 42.3.
Average Age
The average experience of general education teachers in 2012 was 12.6 years.
Average Years of Experience
Administrators, Coordinators, Department Chairs are included in the breakdown below.
Number of Administrators, By Race
Number of General teachers, By Race
Administrators, Coordinators and Department Chairs, By Gender
General Teachers, By Gender
Average days absent per classroom teacher
Teacher salaries are broken down by subject type below. Note that averages for the state and similar schools compare teachers across all grade levels.
Teacher Salary
Hours spent on subjects
In the 2012-13 school year, students spent 135 hours in an English Language Arts class, 135 hours in a math class, 135 hours in a science class and 135 hours in a social studies class . Note: Averages for similar schools and statewide schools don't include schools that do not offer the given subject. For example, not all schools offer world languages so they are not included in the averages.
Eighth Grade
Below you can see the first grade in which a given non-ELL foreign language is offered. If blank, it was not offered in the 2012-13 school year.
First grade in which a non-ELL foreign language is offered in 2012-13
Language Grade
Spanish 7
French 7
Latin
German
Italian
Japanese
Chinese 7
Other Achievement
CMT and CAPT classification
Schools are classified in one of six categories, based on the progress of students in each school, as measured by test scores for the CMT and CAPT and high school graduation rates. The top classification is (1) Excelling, followed by (2) Progressing, (3) Transitioning, (4) Review, (5) Focus and (6) Turnaround. (More information here.)
This school was classified as Review for the 2012-13 school year.
HS Level math
In the 2012-13 school year, 22.2 percent of students took high school-level world lanaguge classes and 91.6 percent took high school-level math classes.
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Eighth graders taking high-school level classes
Class size
The average class sizes for the seventh grade are split by subject below.
Seventh Grade
The average seventh grade class had 15.6 students in the 2012-13 school year. Here's how that breaks down by subject:
The average class sizes for high school are split by subject below.
High School
The average class had students in the 2012-13 school year. Here's how that breaks down by subject:
Attendance rate
Below are the average daily attendance, broken down by subgroups: gender, high-need students and race.
By Gender
High-needs student attendance is below. If the value is unavailable, then the school either a) does not have enough students in the category for the data to be released or b) does not have any students in that categorization.
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High-need students
This is the daily average attendance, by race. If the value is 0, then the school either a) does not have enough students in the category for the data to be released or b) does not have any students in that categorization.
By Race
Student Need
At this school, 66.8 percent of students were eligible for free or reduced lunch in the 2013-14 school year.
Students whose families make less than 130 percent of the poverty level are eligible for free meals. Those whose families make between 130 and 185 percent of the poverty level are eligible for reduced lunch. (Poverty level for 2014 can be seen here.)
At some schools, 100 percent of the students are eligible because of the "Community Eligibility Provision." If 40 percent of a school's students received free meals through a list of approved programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, all students at the school can receive free lunches and breakfasts without an application.
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Percentage of students eligible for free/reduced lunch
Number of students eligible for free/reduced lunch
Foreign language speakers
Students whose dominant language is not English. Note: The value of "5" indicates that five or fewer student speak the language.
Student total
Non-certified staff
In the 2011-12 school years, this school had 51 full-time equivalent non-certified staff.
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Total
Per 100 students
Discipline
The number of disciplinary incidents is broken down by the incidents and rate (per 1,000 students).
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Total incident
INCIDENTS PER 1,000 STUDENTS
Below is the incident breakdown for the 2012-13 school year:
Incidents by type
Media and technology
Schools must keep track of their media and technology resources and report them each year.
Resources
Category 2011-12 Similar Statewide 2012-13 Similar Statewide
Students per computer 3.2 3.7 3.0 2.9 3.4 2.9
Pct connected to internet 100% 100% 98.0% 100% 96.7% 98.4%
Pct connected to high-speed internet 100% 100% 98.0% 100% 96.5% 98.3%
Pct of rooms connected to local area network 100% 100.0% 98.7% 100% 99.7% 99.0%
Pct of rooms connected to internet 100% 100.0% 99.6% 100% 99.7% 99.8%
Wireless network in school? -- -- Y -- --
Library in school? Y -- -- Y -- --
Volumes per student 13 23.5 29.5 18 23.7 32.9
Periodical subscriptions 25 13.4 21.5 21 13.0 21.1
Computers in library media center 36 23.2 21.7 36 23.7 23.1
Nonprint materials in library 490 467.6 513.2 586 398.6 495.2
Fitness
The Connecticut Physical Fitness Assessment tests students on physical skills.
For 11-year-olds, the typical age of sixth graders when the start they year, the standard range is as follow:
For males: Sit-and-reach is 8 inches or above, for 90-degree push-ups it is 8 to 20, for curl-ups it is 15 to 28, and for the one-mile run, it is 8.5 to 11 minutes.
For females: Sit-and-reach is 10 inches or above, for 90-degree push-ups it is 7 to 15, for curl-ups it is 15 to 29, and for the one-mile run, it is 9 to 12 minutes.
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Percentage of Sixth Graders passing
For 13-year-olds, the typical age of eighth graders when the start they year, the standard range is as follow:
For males: Sit-and-reach is 8 inches or above, for 90-degree push-ups it is 12 to 25, for curl-ups it is 21 to 40, and for the one-mile run, it is 7.5 to 10 minutes.
For females: Sit-and-reach is 10 inches or above, for 90-degree push-ups it is 7 to 15, for curl-ups it is 18 to 32, and for the one-mile run, it is 9 to 11.5 minutes.
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Percentage of Eighth Graders passing