King's Highway Elementary School vs Long Lots School

Long Lots School edges out King's Highway Elementary School by 0.2 points overall — 9.1/10 versus 8.9/10 — a narrow but consistent margin that shows up across every scored dimension. In Connecticut's statewide rankings, that gap translates to a meaningful positional difference: Long Lots School ranks #44 of 990 schools while King's Highway Elementary School ranks #57 of 990, a 13-slot advantage that places Long Lots in the state's top 5 percent versus King's Highway's top 6 percent. Both results are strong, but the separation is real and repeatable across data categories.

Academically, Long Lots School scores 9.1/10 against King's Highway Elementary School's 8.9/10 — a 0.2-point delta that mirrors the overall gap and suggests the academic component is the primary driver. The growth score tells the same story: Long Lots School 9.0/10 versus King's Highway Elementary School 8.8/10. Growth measures how much students advance relative to academic peers, so Long Lots's advantage here indicates students are not just entering at a high level but continuing to gain ground at a faster rate than their counterparts at King's Highway.

Both schools serve the same grade span — kindergarten through fifth grade — and sit 2.7 miles apart within Westport, Connecticut. Long Lots School is the larger campus with 562 students enrolled compared to King's Highway Elementary School's 463, a difference of roughly 100 students. Despite larger enrollment, Long Lots carries a slightly more favorable student-teacher ratio: 11.2:1 versus King's Highway's 11.9:1, meaning each Long Lots teacher is responsible for about one fewer student on average. That combination of higher enrollment and tighter ratio implies Long Lots is staffed at a higher level in absolute terms.

No program-level or demographic equity data was available to differentiate the two schools further. The distinguishing factors between these two Westport elementary schools are entirely quantitative: Long Lots School holds the edge on every reported metric — overall rating, state rank, academic score, growth score, and student-teacher ratio — while King's Highway Elementary School is the smaller, slightly less staffed campus with scores that still rank in Connecticut's top 7 percent.