NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Peabody, MA

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

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11
Schools
5,774
Students
38.9/100
Avg Resource Index
13.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Peabody has more public-school enrollment than 61% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Peabody 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Peabody's 11 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 42-point gap between Center and Thomas Carroll shows the range hidden by Peabody'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 39%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
41st percentile
Teacher staffing
74th percentile

Peabody Veterans Memorial High accounts for 23.1% of all Peabody public-school enrollment

That concentration means Peabody-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

Peabody school enrollment varies 14× across entities

Peabody school enrollment ranges from 97 students (lowest) to 1,333 students (highest), a spread of 1,236 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

Peabody operates one school district — a single-district system

Peabody'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

Peabody student-teacher ratio is 13.4:1 — 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. Center 63
2. John E Burke 46
3. West Memorial 43
4. John E. Mccarthy 39
5. Captain Samuel Brown 39
6. Peabody Personalized Remote Education Program 39
7. William a Welch Sr 38
8. Peabody Veterans Memorial High 35
9. J Henry Higgins Middle 34
10. South Memorial 31
11. Thomas Carroll 21

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Peabody

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 John E. Mccarthy 68.9/100
  2. 2 Center 64.7/100
  3. 3 Thomas Carroll 60.2/100
  4. 4 Peabody Personalized Remote Education Program 57.8/100
  5. 5 William a Welch Sr 56.9/100

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Which Peabody school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Peabody schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Peabody, MA? ▼

Peabody has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,774 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.4:1.

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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.