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Roxbury, Massachusetts - 1 schools
An equity score of 45/100 ranks Roxbury Preparatory Charter (District) #114 of 362 districts in Massachusetts (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $24,473 per pupil, Roxbury Preparatory Charter (District) ranks #102 of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending (Massachusetts districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,295
Total Enrollment
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$24,473
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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 $24,473 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 45/100, ranked #114 of 362 in Massachusetts against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across 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 dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
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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