NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Gloucester, MA

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8 public K-12 schools in Gloucester 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
2,784
Students
40.3/100
Avg Resource Index
10.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact system with teacher-dense staffing

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Gloucester has more public-school enrollment than 25% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Gloucester is a comparatively small school market by total enrollment, yet its average student-teacher ratio is lower than most cities in the national comparison set. Small scale can make that staffing pattern easier to sustain, but it can also limit the breadth of specialized programs available at any one campus. The school list below shows whether students are concentrated in one combined-grade campus or distributed across separate elementary, middle, and high-school settings.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Gloucester'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 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Gloucester's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 47th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 95th percentile. The 48-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 75%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
47th percentile
Teacher staffing
95th percentile

Gloucester High accounts for 27.9% of all Gloucester public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Gloucester-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

Gloucester school enrollment varies 7.7× across entities

Gloucester school enrollment ranges from 101 students (lowest) to 776 students (highest), a spread of 675 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

Gloucester operates one school district — a single-district system

Gloucester's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Gloucester student-teacher ratio is 10.9:1 — 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. Plum Cove School 47
2. East Gloucester Elementary 45
3. Ralph B O'maley Middle 44
4. Gloucester High 43
5. Veterans Memorial 40
6. West Parish 38
7. Beeman Memorial 38
8. Gloucester Preschool 27

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Gloucester

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 Beeman Memorial 52.0/100
  2. 2 Gloucester High 38.3/100
  3. 3 Ralph B O'maley Middle 38.3/100
  4. 4 Gloucester Preschool 33.8/100
  5. 5 West Parish 28.0/100

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Which Gloucester school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Plum Cove School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Gloucester schools in this federal-data comparison at 47/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Gloucester, MA? ▼

Gloucester has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,784 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.9:1.

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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.