28 public K-12 schools in Lynn from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lynn has more public-school enrollment than 91% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lynn's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.
12 of Lynn's 28 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.
Lynn's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 11th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 68th percentile. The 57-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.
Lynn school enrollment ranges from 30 students (lowest) to 2,062 students (highest), a spread of 2,032 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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
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.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Fecteau-Leary Junior/Senior High School | 67 |
| 2. | Kipp Academy Lynn Charter School | 47 |
| 3. | Lincoln-Thomson | 41 |
| 4. | Classical High | 40 |
| 5. | Pickering Middle | 40 |
| 6. | Lynn English High | 39 |
| 7. | William R Fallon | 39 |
| 8. | Lynn Vocational Technical Institute | 36 |
| 9. | Thurgood Marshall Mid | 35 |
| 10. | Lynn Woods | 34 |
| 11. | Robert L Ford | 31 |
| 12. | Breed Middle School | 29 |
| 13. | Aborn | 29 |
| 14. | Edward a Sisson | 27 |
| 15. | Capt William G Shoemaker | 27 |
| 16. | Ingalls | 26 |
| 17. | Julia F Callahan | 26 |
| 18. | E J Harrington | 25 |
| 19. | A Drewicz Elementary | 25 |
| 20. | Tracy | 25 |
| 21. | Sewell-Anderson | 25 |
| 22. | Cobbet Elementary | 22 |
| 23. | Wm P Connery | 22 |
| 24. | Hood | 21 |
| 25. | Washington Elementary School | 21 |
| 26. | Brickett Elementary | 21 |
| 27. | Fredrick Douglass Collegiate Academy | - |
| 28. | Virginia Barton Early Childhood Center | - |
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.
Fecteau-Leary Junior/Senior High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lynn schools in this federal-data comparison at 67/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Lynn has 28 public schools with a total enrollment of 18,001 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.9:1.
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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.
