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Grafton, Massachusetts - 6 schools
An equity score of 22/100 ranks Grafton #316 of 362 districts in Massachusetts (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $17,331 per pupil, Grafton ranks #360 of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending (Massachusetts districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
3,106
Total Enrollment
6
Schools
$17,331
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Grafton operates 6 public schools serving 3,106 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Massachusetts. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 elementary, 2 combined, 1 high, 1 middle schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Worcester County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,331 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 62.2% local, 32.0% state, and 5.8% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 22/100, ranked #316 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 6 schools offering Advanced Placement (15 AP courses district-wide), a 591.3:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 20.1% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 68.4% White, 16.9% Asian, 7.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is North Grafton Elementary, with a diversity index of 54.5/100.
Its largest campus is Grafton High School, enrolling 914 students (30% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is North Grafton Elementary, at 257 students, a 4x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Grafton High School accounts for 29.4% of all Grafton student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Grafton-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.
Grafton school enrollment varies 3.6× across entities
Grafton school enrollment ranges from 257 students (lowest) to 914 students (highest), a spread of 657 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Grafton student-counselor ratio is 591:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Grafton chronic absenteeism rate is 20.1% — 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 Grafton is typically wider than the Grafton-aggregate figure suggests.