Claude Chester Elementary is in the Groton Public School District and serves students in pre-kindergarten through grade five. The school has about 390 students and 30 staff members. Jamie Giordano is the principal.
The school's media center offers an Internet-based system that allows students to access materials such as book summaries and images at school and at home. Art classes are offered in the various grades Wednesday through Friday, and the school's music program includes a string orchestra.
Claude Chester also has a school-based health center, staffed with a nurse practitioner and social worker, and offers sick office visits, physicals, immunizations and counseling.
Charles Barnum Elementary is in the Groton Public School District. It serves about 425 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 5, many of whom have parents in the military.
The school has a technology club for students in grades 3 through 5, to help students learn the basics of programs such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint and GarageBand. The school also offers programs in music, art and physical education. Parents and Navy personnel donate hundreds of hours of volunteer time in the school each year. Valerie Nelson is principal.