NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Lynnfield, MA

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

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5
Schools
2,178
Students
40.6/100
Avg Resource Index
13.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lynnfield has more public-school enrollment than 15% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lynnfield's 5 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 Lynnfield's 5 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 0 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

Lynnfield lists only 5 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 36 to 698 students, a 19-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 85%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
48th percentile
Teacher staffing
71st percentile

Lynnfield Middle School accounts for 32.0% of all Lynnfield public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Lynnfield-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. 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

Lynnfield school enrollment varies 19× across entities

Lynnfield school enrollment ranges from 36 students (lowest) to 698 students (highest), a spread of 662 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

Lynnfield operates one school district — a single-district system

Lynnfield'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

Lynnfield student-teacher ratio is 13.7:1 — 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. Lynnfield High 50
2. Lynnfield Preschool 41
3. Huckleberry Hill 40
4. Lynnfield Middle School 36
5. Summer Street 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Lynnfield

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 Huckleberry Hill 45.2/100
  2. 2 Lynnfield Middle School 39.6/100
  3. 3 Lynnfield High 38.0/100
  4. 4 Lynnfield Preschool 29.1/100
  5. 5 Summer Street 26.3/100

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Which Lynnfield school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Lynnfield High has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lynnfield schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Lynnfield, MA? ▼

Lynnfield has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,178 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.7:1.

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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.