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There were 20,170 white students enrolled in New London County in the 2023-24 school year, 2.7% less than the previous year, according to the according to the Connecticut State Department of Education.

Data showed that New London County welcomed 35,083 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 57.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 83 schools in New London County, Norwich Free Academy recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 869 students.

Student enrollment has been dropping in Connecticut’s public schools for over a decade now. With the exception of a slight relief in the 2021-22 school year, schools in the state have lost more than 30,000 students since 2014. 

School Name	% of white Students	Total Enrollment
Wheeler High School	90.3%	330
North Stonington Elementary School	89.9%	406
Center School	87.9%	99
Lebanon Elementary School	87.5%	367
Lyme Consolidated School	87.4%	215
Deans Mill School	87.2%	423
Mile Creek School	86.8%	311
Lebanon Middle School	86%	272
Voluntown Elementary School	86%	235
Lyman Memorial High School	85.9%	340
Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School	85.7%	272
Stonington High School	85.6%	556
Jack Jackter Intermediate School	83.1%	462
Lyme-Old Lyme High School	82.7%	392
William J. Johnston Middle School	82.3%	470
Colchester Elementary School	81.7%	606
Salem Elementary School	81.5%	383
Preston Veterans' Memorial School	81.2%	314
West Vine Street School	80.7%	348
Preston Plains School	80%	130
Stonington Middle School	79.4%	394
Niantic Center School	78.4%	190
Bacon Academy	78.1%	604
Franklin Elementary School	77.5%	191
Fields Memorial School	76.6%	167
Lisbon Central School	76.5%	434
Flanders School	76.3%	266
Griswold Middle School	76.1%	506
Gales Ferry School	75.6%	225
Griswold Elementary School	75.2%	665
East Lyme High School	74.5%	927
Griswold High School	73.2%	578
Great Neck Elementary School	73.1%	334
Clark Lane Middle School	73%	548
Oswegatchie Elementary School	72.6%	296
Waterford High School	72.2%	713
Ledyard High School	71.7%	746
Oakdale School	70.4%	304
East Lyme Middle School	70.1%	693
Dr. Charles E. Murphy School	68.4%	288
Ledyard Middle School	68%	560
Gallup Hill School	66.8%	636
Juliet W. Long School	66.7%	255
Northeast Academy Magnet School	66.1%	392
Marine Science Magnet High School	65.3%	271
Sayles School	64.4%	284
Quaker Hill Elementary School	63.9%	341
Lillie B. Haynes School	63%	349
Norwich Technical High School	62%	642
Montville High School	59.4%	500
Leonard J. Tyl Middle School	57.2%	512
Griswold Soule Street Academy	54.5%	11
Three Rivers Middle College Magnet School	53.1%	81
Charles Barnum Magnet School	51.2%	332
Groton Middle School	46%	898
Mohegan School	45.5%	299
Thames River Magnet School	44.1%	531
Norwich Free Academy	43.4%	2,001
Integrated Day Charter School	43.4%	362
Mystic River Magnet School	43.1%	511
Robert E. Fitch High School	43.1%	1,019
Ella T. Grasso Technical High School	41.2%	674
Catherine Kolnaski Magnet School	38.5%	369
The Friendship School	34.6%	459
Moriarty Magnet School	34.1%	461
Thomas W. Mahan School	31.8%	255
Samuel Huntington School	31.1%	299
Wequonnoc Magnet School	25.9%	220
Kelly STEAM Magnet Middle School	24.6%	548
John B. Stanton School	24.2%	384
Teachers' Memorial Global Studies Magnet Middle School	23.5%	486
Regional Multicultural Magnet School	21.4%	495
Veterans' Memorial School	19.9%	291
Science and Technology Magnet Pathway for High School Grades	18.8%	165
Science and Technology Magnet Pathway for Middle Grades	18.2%	99
New London Visual and Performing Arts Magnet Pathway	17.5%	234
Nathan Hale Arts Magnet School	16.8%	471
Winthrop STEM Elementary Magnet School	15%	479
Interdistrict School For Arts And Communication	12.9%	279
Uncas Elementary School	12.8%	242
C.B. Jennings International Elementary Magnet	6.9%	463
New London High School	6.1%	593
Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School	4.8%	330