Frisbie School, Wolcott CT - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Frisbie School

Frisbie School is an elementary school serving kindergarten through fifth grade in Wolcott, a suburban residential community in northern New Haven County. The school sits in a town shaped by modest industrial heritage and long suburban growth, where employment centers on small-scale precision manufacturing, healthcare, and construction rather than large corporate anchors.

The school's enrollment is small to mid-sized for an elementary building, with roughly equal cohorts across the grade span. Just under two-fifths of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly white, with a meaningful Hispanic population and smaller numbers of Asian, Black, and multiracial students; data on English learner and special education enrollment rates was not available.

Academically, Frisbie shows solid performance on state testing. In both English language arts and mathematics, proficiency rates across the tested grades (three through five) cluster in the mid-to-high range, with math proficiency rising as students move from third to fifth grade. Fifth graders perform particularly well in both subjects, and the school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile among districts in the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region. Science results, available only for fifth grade, show competence in the low-to-mid proficiency range. Testing participation was complete across all measured cohorts. Trend data spanning multiple years was not available, so the picture shows the current moment rather than direction.

Frisbie is part of the Wolcott School District, which in March 2026 won voter approval for a modernization bond addressing aging building systems: fire alarm panels, roof and HVAC at the middle school, elevator code compliance, and water infrastructure at the high school. The district expects state reimbursement to cover a large share of the cost. The district has also formalized equity and diversity policy and made addressing equity gaps a required part of administrator evaluation while working to diversify instructional materials.

The broader community context is car-dependent suburban. Wolcott has modest walkability and no concentrated downtown; daily activity spreads across road corridors. Parks, trails, and town recreation facilities anchor civic life. The housing market locally is moderate, with ownership costs and rents both in the middle range relative to state and national benchmarks. The town follows a controlled-growth framework with a 2022 comprehensive plan and a 2023 affordable housing strategy.

For a family choosing Frisbie, the relevant picture is a small, academically competent elementary school in a car-dependent suburban town with a working-class employment base and moderate housing costs, serving a community that has recently invested in building modernization and formalized equity commitment.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 367%

School 67% · District 66% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 471%

School 71% · District 71%

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

Grade 579%

School 79% · District 67% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 42 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 374%

School 74% · District 70% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 29 pts above county median

Grade 466%

School 66% · District 66%

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 579%

School 79% · District 68% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

Science

Grade 570%

School 70% · District 67% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

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Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.