An equity score of 48/100 ranks Roxbury Preparatory Charter (District) #85 of 362 districts in Massachusetts (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $28,597 per pupil, Roxbury Preparatory Charter (District) ranks #59 of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending (Massachusetts districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,295
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$28,597
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Roxbury Preparatory Charter (District) operates 1 public schools serving 1,295 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Massachusetts. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined 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 $28,597 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 76.5% local, 5.2% state, and 18.2% 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 48/100, ranked #85 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.
a 1251.1:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 71.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 52.6% African American, 40.9% Hispanic or Latino, 1.2% White across the district's schools.
Roxbury Preparatory Charter School accounts for 86.9% of all Roxbury Preparatory Charter (District) student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Roxbury Preparatory Charter (District) a distant remainder — means Roxbury Preparatory Charter (District)-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Roxbury Preparatory Charter (District) student-counselor ratio is 1251:1 — 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.
Roxbury Preparatory Charter (District) chronic absenteeism rate is 71.0% — 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 Roxbury Preparatory Charter (District)'s own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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