NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in East Boston, MA

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

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12
Schools
5,921
Students
39.4/100
Avg Resource Index
10.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, East Boston has more public-school enrollment than 62% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. East Boston 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

12 of East Boston's 12 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

East Boston's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 43rd percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 96th percentile. The 53-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 38%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
43rd percentile
Teacher staffing
96th percentile

Excel Academy Charter School accounts for 23.3% of all East Boston public-school enrollment

That concentration means East Boston-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

East Boston school enrollment varies 13× across entities

East Boston school enrollment ranges from 109 students (lowest) to 1,379 students (highest), a spread of 1,270 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

East Boston student-teacher ratio is 10.8:1 — 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. Bradley Elementary School 52
2. Alighieri Dante Montessori School 49
3. Guild Elementary School 48
4. Otis Elementary School 44
5. Excel Academy Charter School 43
6. Kennedy Patrick J Elementary School 41
7. East Boston Early Education Center 41
8. East Boston High School 34
9. Mckay K-8 School 34
10. Adams Elementary School 32
11. O'donnell Elementary School 29
12. Mario Umana Academy 26

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in East Boston

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 Bradley Elementary School 64.9/100
  2. 2 Alighieri Dante Montessori School 56.4/100
  3. 3 East Boston Early Education Center 51.7/100
  4. 4 Adams Elementary School 44.9/100
  5. 5 Otis Elementary School 43.5/100

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Which East Boston school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Bradley Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the East Boston schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in East Boston, MA? ▼

East Boston has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,921 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.8:1.

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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.