NCES CCD 2024-25 16 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Framingham, MA

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

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16
Schools
10,304
Students
42.1/100
Avg Resource Index
11.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Framingham has more public-school enrollment than 81% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Framingham 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

9 of Framingham's 16 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 4 middle and 2 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 31-point gap between Christa Mcauliffe Charter School and Barbieri Elementary shows the range hidden by Framingham'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 19%
School count
Top 21%
Resource Index average
56th percentile
Teacher staffing
89th percentile

Framingham High School accounts for 24.6% of all Framingham public-school enrollment

That concentration means Framingham-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. 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

Framingham school enrollment varies 10× across entities

Framingham school enrollment ranges from 245 students (lowest) to 2,534 students (highest), a spread of 2,289 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

Framingham student-teacher ratio is 11.9:1 — 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. Christa Mcauliffe Charter School 61
2. Walsh Middle 49
3. Cameron Middle School 48
4. Mary E Stapleton Elementary 48
5. Joseph P Keefe Technical High School 45
6. Fuller Middle 44
7. Harmony Grove Elementary 43
8. Potter Road 41
9. Brophy 41
10. Charlotte a Dunning 41
11. Framingham High School 40
12. Juniper Hill School 40
13. King Elementary School 39
14. Hemenway 32
15. Miriam F Mccarthy School 31
16. Barbieri Elementary 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Framingham

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 Hemenway 67.4/100
  2. 2 King Elementary School 67.1/100
  3. 3 Christa Mcauliffe Charter School 66.7/100
  4. 4 Cameron Middle School 64.3/100
  5. 5 Charlotte a Dunning 64.2/100

What do families ask about schools in Framingham?

Which Framingham school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Christa Mcauliffe Charter School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Framingham schools in this federal-data comparison at 61/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Framingham, MA? ▼

Framingham has 16 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,304 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.9:1.

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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.