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Boston, Massachusetts - 1 schools
At $32,884 per pupil, Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy Charter Public (District) ranks #18 of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending (Massachusetts districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy Charter Public (District) operates 1 public schools serving 114 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Massachusetts. The school portfolio breaks down into 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 Suffolk County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $32,884 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 40 of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending. See how Massachusetts compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 56.6% local, 7.5% state, and 35.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 57:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 89.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Use the school table below to drill into any individual campus for its own demographic and resource profile.
Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy Charter Public School accounts for 100.0% of all Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy Charter Public (District) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy Charter Public (District) a distant remainder — means Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy Charter Public (District)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: middle. 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.
Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy Charter Public (District) student-counselor ratio is 57:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy Charter Public (District) chronic absenteeism rate is 89.5% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy Charter Public (District)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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