NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Billerica, MA

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8 public K-12 schools in Billerica from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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8
Schools
5,944
Students
44.4/100
Avg Resource Index
13.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Billerica has more public-school enrollment than 63% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Billerica sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

6 of Billerica's 8 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 0 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 14-point gap between Shawsheen Valley Vocational Technical High School and Hajjar Elementary shows the range hidden by Billerica's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 37%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
68th percentile
Teacher staffing
69th percentile

Billerica Memorial High School accounts for 30.6% of all Billerica public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Billerica-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Billerica school enrollment varies 5.5× across entities

Billerica school enrollment ranges from 330 students (lowest) to 1,816 students (highest), a spread of 1,486 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Billerica student-teacher ratio is 13.8:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Shawsheen Valley Vocational Technical High School 53
2. Marshall Middle School 50
3. Locke Middle 45
4. John F Kennedy 44
5. Billerica Memorial High School 43
6. Parker 41
7. Thomas Ditson 40
8. Hajjar Elementary 39

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Billerica

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Parker 62.5/100
  2. 2 Hajjar Elementary 59.5/100
  3. 3 Billerica Memorial High School 55.3/100
  4. 4 Thomas Ditson 54.1/100
  5. 5 Marshall Middle School 53.2/100

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Which Billerica school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Shawsheen Valley Vocational Technical High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Billerica schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Billerica, MA? ▼

Billerica has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,944 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.8:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.