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Bridgewater, Massachusetts - 8 schools
An equity score of 21/100 ranks Bridgewater-Raynham #323 of 362 districts in Massachusetts (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,365 per pupil, Bridgewater-Raynham ranks #382 of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending (Massachusetts districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
5,521
Total Enrollment
8
Schools
$16,365
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Bridgewater-Raynham operates 8 public schools serving 5,521 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Massachusetts. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 elementary, 2 combined, 1 high, 1 middle schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Plymouth County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,365 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 40 of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending. See how Massachusetts compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 48.7% local, 44.9% state, and 6.4% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 21/100, ranked #323 of 362 in Massachusetts against a state average of 38, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 8 schools offering Advanced Placement (12 AP courses district-wide), a 414.3:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 29.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 69.8% White, 14.3% African American, 8.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Merrill Elementary School, with a diversity index of 55.1/100.
Its largest campus is Bridgewater-Raynham Regional, enrolling 1,487 students (26% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Therapeutic Day School, at 10 students, a 149x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Bridgewater-Raynham Regional accounts for 26.2% of all Bridgewater-Raynham student enrollment
That concentration means Bridgewater-Raynham-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Bridgewater-Raynham school enrollment varies 149× across entities
Bridgewater-Raynham school enrollment ranges from 10 students (lowest) to 1,487 students (highest), a spread of 1,477 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Bridgewater-Raynham student-counselor ratio is 414:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Bridgewater-Raynham chronic absenteeism rate is 29.1% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Bridgewater-Raynham is typically wider than the Bridgewater-Raynham-aggregate figure suggests.