NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Hopkinton, MA

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

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

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Schools

4,227

Students

42.3/100

Avg Resource Index

14.8:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hopkinton has more public-school enrollment than 47% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hopkinton's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Hopkinton's 6 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Hopkinton lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 89 to 1,267 students, a 14-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment: Top 53%
School count: Top 79%
Resource Index average: 57th percentile
Teacher staffing: 57th percentile

Hopkinton High accounts for 30.0% of all Hopkinton public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Hopkinton-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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Hopkinton school enrollment varies 14× across entities

Hopkinton school enrollment ranges from 89 students (lowest) to 1,267 students (highest), a spread of 1,178 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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Hopkinton operates one school district — a single-district system

Hopkinton'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 Accessed 2026-08-26

Hopkinton student-teacher ratio is 14.8:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Hopkinton is typically wider than the Hopkinton-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Hopkinton High	51	1,267	high	Hopkinton
2.	Hopkinton Middle School	48	996	middle	Hopkinton
3.	Hopkins Elementary School	44	682	elementary	Hopkinton
4.	Elmwood	40	648	elementary	Hopkinton
5.	Marathon Elementary School	36	545	elementary	Hopkinton
6.	Hopkinton Pre-School	35	89	Combined	Hopkinton

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Hopkinton

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.

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Which Hopkinton school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Hopkinton High has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hopkinton schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hopkinton, MA? ▼

Hopkinton has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,227 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.8:1.

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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.