About Area Cooperative Educational Services
Area Cooperative Educational Services is a public school system serving South Central Connecticut Planning Region County, Connecticut, based in North Haven. It serves 1,726 students across 3 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: mid-size district. By enrollment it is the #86 largest of Connecticut’s 200 school systems.
Size and structure
Area Cooperative Educational Services enrolls 1,726 students in 3 schools — an average of about 575 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #86 of 200 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Area Cooperative Educational Services, from the NCES Common Core of Data (1,726 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Area Cooperative Educational Services employs about 222 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 7.8:1 — below the Connecticut average of about 11.8:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 811.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Connecticut funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Area Cooperative Educational Services are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Connecticut rates schools and districts through its Next Generation Accountability System on EdSight, combining 12 indicators (achievement, academic growth, English-learner progress, chronic absenteeism, graduation and postsecondary readiness) into an overall index. Look up Area Cooperative Educational Services on the EdSight accountability portal.
Accreditation status
Connecticut public schools are overseen chiefly through the state’s own approval and accountability system; the main voluntary K–12 accreditor in the region is NEASC (the New England Association of Schools and Colleges). Search Area Cooperative Educational Services’s schools in the NEASC directory.
Area Cooperative Educational Services vs. Connecticut
See every Connecticut district side by side in the Connecticut directory.
Look up Area Cooperative Educational Services’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):