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Framingham, Massachusetts - 14 schools
An equity score of 48/100 ranks Framingham #82 of 362 districts in Massachusetts (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $24,781 per pupil, Framingham ranks #94 of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending (Massachusetts districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
9,469
Total Enrollment
14
Schools
$24,781
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Middle
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Framingham operates 14 public schools serving 9,469 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Massachusetts. The school portfolio breaks down into 9 elementary, 3 middle, 1 high, 1 combined 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 Middlesex County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $24,781 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending. See how Massachusetts compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 49.2% local, 41.4% state, and 9.4% 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 48/100, ranked #82 of 362 in Massachusetts against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 14 schools offering Advanced Placement (27 AP courses district-wide), a 363.2:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 42.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 54.8% Hispanic or Latino, 30.3% White, 6.1% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Hemenway, with a diversity index of 67.4/100.
Its largest campus is Framingham High School, enrolling 2,534 students (28% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Juniper Hill School, at 245 students, a 10x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Framingham High School accounts for 26.8% of all Framingham student enrollment
That concentration means Framingham-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.
Framingham school enrollment varies 10× across entities
Framingham school enrollment ranges from 245 students (lowest) to 2,534 students (highest), a spread of 2,289 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Framingham student-counselor ratio is 363:1 — 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.
Framingham chronic absenteeism rate is 42.2% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.