Summary:
Norwalk City enrolls about 2,453 students across six schools — three elementary, two middle, and one high school — covering grades PK through 12. The district as a whole is ranked 331 of 773 statewide (57th percentile, 3 stars). The largest school is Norwalk High School with 699 students, and the smallest is League Elementary School with 192; the average school enrolls about 409 students. Grade spans overlap in a few places: Main Street School serves grades 3–5 while League serves 5–6, and Norwalk Middle School serves 7–9 while the high school serves 9–12.
Early elementary achievement is the clearest strength. Main Street has the district's strongest current rank (453 of 1,560, 71st percentile, 4 stars) and beat the state in all five of its reported 2025–2026 tests, including 4th grade math at 89.8 versus the state's 67.3. Pleasant Elementary School posts the best early-grade results, with 3rd grade math at 88.9 versus 62.1 statewide. Norwalk Middle reports 100% Algebra I proficiency in both years, far above the district's 72.8. Norwalk High is more mixed: above state in Government, History, English II, and Algebra I, but below state in Geometry both years, and Biology slipped to 63.8 versus the state's 67.0. Its rank fell to 45th percentile, 2 stars, from 57th percentile, 3 stars.
Attendance varies sharply and does not track neatly with test scores. Pleasant has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 9.8%, while Norwalk Middle has the highest at 26.8% — well above the district's 18.4%; Norwalk High (22.8%) and Maplehurst Elementary School (20.9%) are also above it. Student-teacher ratios range from 11.8 at Norwalk Middle to 21.4 at Norwalk High. Reported 2018–2019 per-student spending ranges from $5,826 to $10,383, but these figures are historical, not current. Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for every school, and rank histories are uneven, so some comparisons remain limited.
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