{ "metadata": { "town": "Ridgefield", "what": "Full CT EdSight enrollment and FTE staffing history, one request per school year.", "generated_by": "Data/fetch_edsight_history.py", "generated_utc": "2026-08-25T13:12:50Z", "source": { "publisher": "Connecticut State Department of Education (EdSight)", "enrollment_report": "https://public-edsight.ct.gov/students/enrollment-dashboard", "staffing_report": "https://public-edsight.ct.gov/educators/fte-staffing", "method": "SAS Stored Process, guest session, one request per school year. The report's Trend view returns only six years; its own year picker offers nineteen individual years, which is what this reads." }, "years_requested": [ "2007-08", "2008-09", "2009-10", "2010-11", "2011-12", "2012-13", "2013-14", "2014-15", "2015-16", "2016-17", "2017-18", "2018-19", "2019-20", "2020-21", "2021-22", "2022-23", "2023-24", "2024-25", "2025-26" ], "caveats": [ "Enrollment is the October 1 count.", "FTE staffing is reported by the district that EMPLOYS the staff. A town that sends grades out has those staff counted in the receiving district, not here.", "Assignment-category names are the source's own and their wording has changed over nineteen years. They are carried verbatim; grouping them is an editorial decision and is not made in this file.", "A year with no row is a gap in the source, recorded under `gaps`, and is not a zero." ], "sends_grades_out": false, "grades_served_by_own_district": [ "grade_1", "grade_10", "grade_11", "grade_12", "grade_2", "grade_3", "grade_4", "grade_5", "grade_6", "grade_7", "grade_8", "grade_9", "kindergarten", "prekindergarten" ] }, "town": "Ridgefield", "slug": "ridgefield", "districts": [ { "district": "Ridgefield School District", "role": "own district", "organization_code": "0090082", "enrollment": { "years": [ "2007-08", "2008-09", "2009-10", "2010-11", "2011-12", "2012-13", "2013-14", "2014-15", "2015-16", "2016-17", "2017-18", "2018-19", "2019-20", "2020-21", "2021-22", "2022-23", "2023-24", "2024-25", "2025-26" ], "total_enrollment": { "2007-08": 5560, "2008-09": 5551, "2009-10": 5456, "2010-11": 5437, "2011-12": 5379, "2012-13": 5296, "2013-14": 5293, "2014-15": 5178, "2015-16": 5052, "2016-17": 4984, "2017-18": 4929, "2018-19": 4860, "2019-20": 4707, "2020-21": 4556, "2021-22": 4578, "2022-23": 4568, "2023-24": 4474, "2024-25": 4484, "2025-26": 4389 } }, "fte_staffing": { "years": [ "2007-08", "2008-09", "2009-10", "2010-11", "2011-12", "2012-13", "2013-14", "2014-15", "2015-16", "2016-17", "2017-18", "2018-19", "2019-20", "2020-21", "2021-22", "2022-23", "2023-24", "2024-25", "2025-26" ], "categories": { "Administrators Coordinators and Department Chairs - District Central Office": { "educator_type": "Certified", "fte": { "2007-08": 7.0, "2008-09": 6.0, "2009-10": 8.0, "2010-11": 8.0, "2011-12": 8.4, "2012-13": 6.6, "2013-14": 6.8, "2014-15": 6.8, "2015-16": 7.8, "2016-17": 10.6, "2017-18": 8.5, "2018-19": 7.5, "2019-20": 8.5, "2020-21": 8.0, "2021-22": 10.0, "2022-23": 10.0, "2023-24": 10.5, "2024-25": 10.5, "2025-26": 10.5 } }, "Administrators Coordinators and Department Chairs - School Level": { "educator_type": "Certified", "fte": { "2007-08": 20.3, "2008-09": 21.7, "2009-10": 21.8, "2010-11": 22.2, "2011-12": 22.2, "2012-13": 19.8, "2013-14": 19.6, "2014-15": 20.0, "2015-16": 25.2, "2016-17": 25.0, "2017-18": 26.5, "2018-19": 26.3, "2019-20": 23.4, "2020-21": 25.2, "2021-22": 24.8, "2022-23": 24.9, "2023-24": 26.1, "2024-25": 28.3, "2025-26": 28.5 } }, "Counselors Social Workers and School Psychologists": { "educator_type": "Certified", "fte": { "2007-08": 26.1, "2008-09": 26.1, "2009-10": 24.6, "2010-11": 26.6, "2011-12": 26.6, "2012-13": 26.6, "2013-14": 26.6, "2014-15": 29.6, "2015-16": 29.8, "2016-17": 27.8, "2017-18": 25.2, "2018-19": 27.6, "2019-20": 29.6, "2020-21": 34.6, "2021-22": 31.6, "2022-23": 31.6, "2023-24": 30.3, "2024-25": 31.6, "2025-26": 33.6 } }, "General Education - Paraprofessional Instructional Assistants": { "educator_type": "Non-Certified", "fte": { "2007-08": 20.4, "2008-09": 23.4, "2009-10": 21.8, "2010-11": 21.0, "2011-12": 20.8, "2012-13": 19.2, "2013-14": 24.8, "2014-15": 13.1, "2015-16": 11.0, "2016-17": 8.6, "2017-18": 5.5, "2018-19": 3.1, "2019-20": 3.1, "2020-21": 3.1, "2021-22": 3.0, "2022-23": 3.0, "2023-24": 3.0, "2024-25": 6.0, "2025-26": 8.0 } }, "General Education - Teachers and Instructors": { "educator_type": "Certified", "fte": { "2007-08": 341.2, "2008-09": 333.8, "2009-10": 336.9, "2010-11": 344.0, "2011-12": 338.6, "2012-13": 344.5, "2013-14": 342.4, "2014-15": 342.3, "2015-16": 342.5, "2016-17": 343.0, "2017-18": 338.9, "2018-19": 337.9, "2019-20": 330.5, "2020-21": 315.9, "2021-22": 319.3, "2022-23": 312.6, "2023-24": 314.7, "2024-25": 318.9, "2025-26": 321.0 } }, "Instructional Specialists Who Support Teachers": { "educator_type": "Certified", "fte": { "2007-08": 10.1, "2008-09": 12.1, "2009-10": 12.1, "2010-11": 9.6, "2011-12": 9.6, "2012-13": 11.1, "2013-14": 10.3, "2014-15": 9.3, "2015-16": 16.3, "2016-17": 16.8, "2017-18": 14.6, "2018-19": 17.6, "2019-20": 16.1, "2020-21": 18.1, "2021-22": 17.5, "2022-23": 19.0, "2023-24": 17.5, "2024-25": 18.3, "2025-26": 19.9 } }, "Library/Media - Specialists (Certified)": { "educator_type": "Certified", "fte": { "2007-08": 10.0, "2008-09": 10.2, "2009-10": 10.2, "2010-11": 10.2, "2011-12": 9.8, "2012-13": 9.9, "2013-14": 9.9, "2014-15": 9.0, "2015-16": 10.0, "2016-17": 10.0, "2017-18": 10.0, "2018-19": 10.0, "2019-20": 10.0, "2020-21": 9.0, "2021-22": 9.0, "2022-23": 9.0, "2023-24": 7.0, "2024-25": 10.0, "2025-26": 10.0 } }, "Library/Media - Support Staff": { "educator_type": "Non-Certified", "fte": { "2007-08": 5.0, "2008-09": 4.0, "2009-10": 4.0, "2010-11": 3.0, "2011-12": 4.0, "2012-13": 3.0, "2013-14": 4.0, "2014-15": 3.0, "2015-16": 4.0, "2016-17": 2.0, "2017-18": 4.0, "2018-19": 4.0, "2019-20": 4.0, "2020-21": 4.0, "2021-22": 3.0, "2022-23": 3.0, "2023-24": 3.0, "2024-25": 3.0, "2025-26": 3.0 } }, "Other Staff Providing Non-Instructional Services/Support": { "educator_type": "Certified/Non-Certified", "fte": { "2007-08": 196.8, "2008-09": 212.3, "2009-10": 198.8, "2010-11": 201.2, "2011-12": 223.6, "2012-13": 205.7, "2013-14": 217.4, "2014-15": 111.5, "2015-16": 221.7, "2016-17": 226.6, "2017-18": 225.4, "2018-19": 229.4, "2019-20": 226.6, "2020-21": 228.5, "2021-22": 225.1, "2022-23": 222.6, "2023-24": 225.2, "2024-25": 241.4, "2025-26": 218.5 } }, "School Nurses": { "educator_type": "Non-Certified", "fte": { "2007-08": 11.0, "2008-09": 13.5, "2009-10": 13.5, "2010-11": 13.0, "2011-12": 14.0, "2012-13": 13.6, "2013-14": 16.0, "2014-15": 10.0, "2015-16": 12.0, "2016-17": 11.0, "2017-18": 16.0, "2018-19": 11.0, "2019-20": 11.0, "2020-21": 11.0, "2021-22": 11.0, "2022-23": 11.0, "2023-24": 11.0, "2024-25": 14.0, "2025-26": 15.0 } }, "Special Education - 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