Merrimack Valley News

The majority of students in Middlesex County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Of the 203,986 pupils attending Middlesex County schools, 56% were white. Hispanic students were the second largest ethnic group, making up 18.3% of the Middlesex County student body.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Middlesex County schools, representing 57.8% of the student body.

Putnam Avenue Upper School had the most even distribution of races among county schools, which included 30.7% of African American students, 26.3% of white students, 15.5% of Asian students, 13.1% of multiracial students, and 1.2% of Native American students.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in public schools in the county increased 1.2% compared to the previous year.

Students in Massachusetts are predominantly white, according to state data from 2020. 35% of students were considered people of color.

Across the state, Hispanic and Latino students suffered the highest high school dropout rates.

Underrepresentation is also found among educators in Massachusetts. The Rennie Center reported that only 9% of teachers are people of color.

School name	Most Prevalent Ethnicity	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
1 Lt. Charles W. Whitcomb School	Hispanic	61.8%	1,044
A. E. Angier School	White	64.4%	376
Abbot Elementary School	White	75.3%	360
Abraham Lincoln School	Asian	41.3%	492
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School	White	49.6%	1,683
Adams School	Hispanic	51.1%	182
Albert F. Argenziano School at Lincoln Park	White	44.5%	544
Alcott School	White	67.9%	417
Alice M. Barrows School	White	87.9%	356
Ambrose Elementary School	White	82%	345
Amigos School	Hispanic	50.4%	407
Arlington High School	White	72.8%	1,527
Arthur D. Healey School	Hispanic	49.4%	506
Arthur W. Coolidge Middle School	White	89.3%	429
Ashby Elementary School	White	84.4%	141
Ashland High School	White	63.1%	840
Ashland Middle School	White	63.5%	682
Assabet Valley Vocational High School	White	69.6%	1,128
Ayer Shirley Regional High School	White	73.4%	394
Ayer Shirley Regional Middle School	White	74.9%	367
B.F. Butler Middle School	Hispanic	38.1%	514
Barbieri Elementary School	Hispanic	81.2%	696
Bartlett Community Partnership School	Hispanic	40.7%	494
Bedford High School	White	61.6%	841
Beebe School	Asian	31.9%	881
Belmont High School	White	61.4%	1,364
Benjamin G. Brown School	White	60.2%	211
Bennett-Hemenway School	White	67.7%	480
Bigelow Middle School	White	56.8%	435
Billerica Memorial High School	White	70.3%	1,726
Birch Meadow School	White	85.2%	358
Blanchard Memorial School	White	53.6%	506
Blanchard Middle School	White	54.3%	543
Boutwell Early Childhood Center	White	78.3%	143
Boutwell School	White	86.2%	94
Bowen School	White	45.3%	360
Bowman School	Asian	41.7%	451
Brackett School	White	69.2%	425
Bridge School	Asian	43.9%	374
Brooks School	White	73.1%	547
Brookside Elementary School	White	62.5%	518
Brophy School	Hispanic	60.6%	487
Brown School	White	53.9%	503
Burlington High School	White	59.9%	972
Byam School	White	66.5%	501
C. A. Farley School	White	70%	430
C. C. Burr School	White	45.7%	368
C.T. Douglas Elementary School	White	63.7%	377
Cabot School	White	54.3%	442
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School	White	37.3%	1,867
Cambridge Street Upper School	White	39.6%	293
Cambridgeport School	White	51.8%	255
Cameron Middle School	White	52.3%	553
Capuano Early Childhood Center	White	38.5%	213
Cardinal O'Connell Early Learning Center	Hispanic	31.3%	99
Carlisle School	White	72.4%	601
Carol Huebner Early Childhood Program	Asian	39.3%	107
Center Elementary School	White	66%	485
Center School	White	78.3%	498
Charles D. Harrington School	White	56.3%	471
Charles E. Brown Middle School	White	58.8%	750
Charles Jaworek School	Hispanic	48.5%	656
Charles W. Morey School	Asian	58.6%	481
Charlotte A. Dunning School	White	52.7%	433
Charlotte M. Murkland Elementary School	Hispanic	44.3%	438
Chelmsford High School	White	67.2%	1,367
Claypit Hill School	White	73.1%	498
Clyde Reeves School	White	67.3%	422
Col John Robinson School	White	59.2%	338
Col Moses Parker School	White	66.3%	723
Colonial Park School	White	78.4%	241
Community Education Center	White	49.8%	201
Concord Carlisle High School	White	74.3%	1,306
Concord Middle School	White	73.7%	650
Country School	White	65.6%	331
Countryside School	White	50%	372
Cunniff School	White	57.4%	326
Curtis-Tufts School	White	66.7%	18
Cyrus E. Dallin School	White	66.5%	415
Daniel Butler School	White	46.7%	334
Daniel L. Joyce Middle School	White	68.9%	447
David J. Quinn Middle School	White	74.2%	558
David Mindess School	White	55.6%	644
Day Elementary School	White	52%	327
Devens School	Hispanic	43.5%	46
Dolbeare School	White	84.1%	433
Douglas MacArthur Elementary School	White	62.3%	477
Dr. An Wang School	Hispanic	40.4%	659
Dr. Gertrude Bailey School	Asian	38.9%	460
Dr. Janice Adie Day School	White	32.7%	55
Dracut Senior High School	White	66.8%	847
E Ethel Little School	White	85.1%	323
E Somerville Community School	Hispanic	66.7%	729
Early Childhood Center	White	77.7%	323
Early Childhood Center	White	54.5%	191
Early Childhood Center at the Doyle School	White	73.6%	121
Elmwood School	White	54.4%	627
Ephraim Curtis Middle School	White	72.7%	850
Everett High School	Hispanic	62.7%	2,231
F. A. Day Middle School	White	58.8%	920
Ferryway School	Hispanic	34.9%	894
Field Elementary School	White	55.3%	266
Fiske School	White	45.5%	341
Fletcher/Maynard Academy	African American	51.6%	254
Florence Roche School	White	78.9%	526
Forest Avenue Elementary School	White	74.3%	284
Forestdale School	White	41.2%	594
Fowler School	White	75.6%	459
Fox Hill School	White	64.5%	428
Framingham High School	White	44.5%	2,566
Francis J. Kane School	White	46.9%	493
Francis Wyman Elementary School	White	63.5%	493
Franklin School	White	59%	363
Frederick J. Dutile School	White	68.6%	280
Full Circle High School	Hispanic	51.9%	54
Fuller Middle School	Hispanic	58.8%	616
Galvin Middle School	White	80.1%	1,065
General John Nixon Elementary School	White	71.7%	325
George H. Englesby Elementary School	White	60%	532
George Keverian School	Hispanic	71.1%	897
Gibbs School	White	69.1%	511
Goodnow Brothers Elementary School	Hispanic	55.5%	784
Goodyear Elementary School	White	57.8%	322
Gr. Lowell Regional Vocational Technical School	White	36.5%	2,302
Graham and Parks School	White	52.5%	362
Green Meadow School	White	75.2%	419
Greenhalge School	Hispanic	53.9%	473
Greenmont Avenue School	White	64.6%	240
Greenwood School	White	84.5%	219
Groton Dunstable Regional Middle School	White	81.9%	723
Groton Dunstable Regional School	White	87.1%	680
Haggerty School	White	45.3%	232
Hajjar Elementary School	White	71.2%	375
Hale School	White	83%	270
Hanscom Middle School	White	54.5%	224
Hanscom Primary School	White	59.4%	239
Happy Hollow School	White	69.7%	363
Hardy School	White	64.5%	397
Harmony Grove Elementary School	Hispanic	70.6%	496
Harrington School	Asian	44.7%	396
Hawthorne Brook School	White	86%	464
Heath-Brook School	White	81.6%	332
Hemenway School	White	47.9%	543
Henry E. Warren Elementary School	White	51.5%	643
Henry J. Robinson Middle School	Hispanic	53.4%	603
Henry Whittemore Elementary School	Hispanic	78.2%	385
Herbert Clark Hoover School	White	72.3%	303
Holliston High School	White	80.6%	814
Hopkins Elementary School	White	54.5%	639
Hopkinton High School	White	68.2%	1,234
Hopkinton Middle School	White	63.5%	972
Hopkinton Pre-School	White	43.4%	99
Horace Mann School	White	90.2%	244
Horace Mann School	White	59.7%	357
Hosmer School	White	57%	716
Hudson High School	White	76.5%	808
Hurld-Wyman Elementary School	White	77.9%	390
Israel Loring School	White	72.3%	426
J Turner Hood School	White	84.6%	383
J Warren Killam School	White	83.3%	406
J. F. Kennedy Middle School	White	73.1%	884
James Fitzgerald Elementary School	White	55.3%	378
James Russell Lowell School	White	51.8%	355
James S. Daley Middle School	Asian	48.1%	674
James Sullivan Middle School	Hispanic	46.8%	592
John A. Bishop School	White	65.6%	401
John A. Crisafulli Elementary School	White	56.7%	335
John F. Kennedy Middle School	White	65.8%	514
John F. Kennedy Middle School	White	50.7%	600
John F. Kennedy School	White	85.2%	304
John F. Kennedy School	White	67.5%	440
John F. Ryan School	White	82.4%	510
John Glenn Middle School	White	61.5%	597
John J. McGlynn Elementary School	White	43.7%	481
John J. McGlynn Middle School	White	56%	461
John J. Shaughnessy School	Hispanic	43.2%	479
John M. Tobin School	White	39.7%	320
John W. McDevitt Middle School	Hispanic	62.9%	595
John W. Wynn Middle School	White	79.6%	496
John Ward School	White	69.6%	194
Johnson School	White	76.5%	136
Jonas Clarke Middle School	Asian	44.2%	823
Joseph A. Campbell Elementary School	White	73%	596
Joseph Estabrook School	Asian	45.4%	542
Joseph McAvinnue School	Hispanic	47.7%	428
Joseph P. Keefe Technical High School	White	48%	842
Joshua Eaton School	White	78.7%	389
Josiah Haynes School	White	77.3%	370
Juniper Hill School	White	41.3%	269
Justus C. Richardson Middle School	White	67.5%	848
Kathryn P. Stoklosa Middle School	Asian	45.7%	633
Kennedy-Longfellow School	African American	23.4%	184
King Elementary School	White	48%	392
King Open School	White	36.7%	371
L. D. Batchelder School	White	88.1%	463
L. F. Dewing School	White	72.5%	612
Lafayette School	Hispanic	58.6%	1,020
Laura Lee Therapeutic Day School	Hispanic	28.6%	14
Leblanc Therapeutic Day School	Hispanic	51.5%	33
Lexington Children's Place	Asian	64%	75
Lexington High School	Asian	45.5%	2,303
Lilja Elementary School	White	64.8%	406
Lincoln Elementary School	White	74.1%	328
Lincoln School	White	55%	544
Lincoln School	White	55.5%	393
Lincoln-Eliot School	White	44.4%	338
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School	White	72%	1,484
Linden School	Asian	26.1%	820
Linscott-Rumford School	White	60.8%	199
Littleton High School	White	77.7%	480
Littleton Middle School	White	79.5%	385
Locke Middle School	White	73.6%	549
Loker School	White	66%	385
Lowell High School	Hispanic	39.4%	3,167
Lt. Eleazer Davis School	White	62.1%	514
Lt. Job Lane School	White	55.9%	587
Lura A. White Elementary School	White	74.6%	343
Luther Conant School	Asian	58.1%	408
Lynch Elementary School	White	54.1%	473
M. Norcross Stratton School	White	63%	435
Madeleine Dugger Andrews School	White	61.2%	456
Madeline English School	Hispanic	67.5%	763
Malcolm White School	White	64.4%	317
Malden Early Learning Center	Asian	33.9%	239
Malden High School	Hispanic	31.3%	1,856
Marathon Elementary School	White	54.6%	592
Maria Hastings School	Asian	47.2%	598
Maria L. Baldwin School	White	57.4%	340
Marlborough High School	Hispanic	63.8%	1,064
Marshall Middle School	White	69.4%	604
Marshall Simonds Middle School	White	61.3%	817
Martin Luther King Junior School	Asian	35.5%	332
Mary D. Altavesta School	White	51.2%	203
Mary E. Stapleton Elementary School	Hispanic	45.2%	343
Mary Lee Burbank School	White	63.7%	336
Mason-Rice School	White	58.7%	332
Maynard High School	White	72.8%	316
McCall Middle School	White	69.1%	1,037
McCarthy Middle School	White	62.8%	844
McCarthy-Towne School	White	70.2%	446
Medford High School	White	55.2%	1,260
Melrose High School	White	75.1%	926
Melrose Middle School	White	75.6%	869
Memorial School	White	58.4%	394
Memorial School	White	77.8%	432
Memorial Spaulding School	White	54.2%	397
Menotomy Preschool	White	55.7%	88
Merriam School	White	65.9%	431
Miller School	White	79.5%	604
Milton Fuller Roberts School	White	62.7%	552
Minuteman Regional High School	White	73.7%	691
Miriam F. McCarthy School	Hispanic	53.1%	550
Missituk Elementary School	White	57.3%	391
Moody Elementary School	Hispanic	51.5%	241
Morse School	White	44.9%	294
Mulready Elementary School	White	77.8%	243
Muraco Elementary School	White	67.5%	326
Nabnasset School	White	72.4%	369
Nashoba Valley Technical High School	White	81.1%	750
Natick High School	White	74.9%	1,727
Newton Early Childhood Program	White	41.4%	186
Newton North High School	White	60.2%	2,099
Newton South High School	White	58%	1,837
Next Wave Junior High School	Hispanic	46.7%	15
Nissitissit Middle School	White	76.3%	481
North Intermediate School	White	81%	252
North Middlesex Regional School	White	84.6%	779
North Reading High School	White	85.9%	644
North Reading Middle School	White	83.9%	541
Northeast Elementary School	White	42%	507
Northeast Metro Regional Vocational School	White	52.2%	1,292
Oak Hill Middle School	White	53.6%	657
Ottoson Middle School	White	70.6%	922
Page Hilltop Elementary School	White	66.7%	532
Parker School	White	64.2%	427
Paul P. Gates Elementary School	Asian	56.3%	350
Pawtucketville Memorial School	White	32.6%	466
Peabody School	White	45%	318
Peirce School	White	60.6%	241
Peirce School	White	63.5%	364
Peter Noyes School	White	72.2%	564
Peter W. Reilly School	White	43.5%	485
Pine Glen Elementary School	White	61.7%	308
Pine Hill School	White	77.6%	401
Placentino Elementary School	White	80.8%	703
Potter Road School	Hispanic	50.1%	541
Putnam Avenue Upper School	African American	30.7%	251
Pyne Arts School	Hispanic	40.4%	503
Raymond J. Grey Junior High School	White	49.7%	825
Reading Memorial High School	White	86.7%	1,096
Richer School	Hispanic	61.2%	533
Rindge Avenue Upper School	White	50.4%	274
RISE PreSchool	White	76.7%	103
Rita E. Miller Elementary School	Asian	44.2%	301
Robert H. Adams Middle School	White	78.2%	655
Robin Hood School	White	71.8%	393
Roger E. Wellington School	White	62.2%	539
Rogers STEM Academy	Hispanic	47.1%	835
Roosevelt School	White	81.4%	408
Russell St. Elementary School	White	78.1%	389
S Christa McAuliffe Elementary School	Hispanic	52.3%	480
Salemwood School	Hispanic	40.3%	1,024
Shaker Lane Elementary School	White	75.5%	436
Shamrock School	White	53.9%	284
Shawsheen Elementary School	White	80.9%	387
Shawsheen Valley Vocational Technical High School	White	88.2%	1,292
Somerville High School	Hispanic	47.3%	1,310
South Row School	White	67.4%	463
South School	White	68.8%	349
Spaulding Memorial School	White	86.9%	419
Squannacook Early Childhood Center	White	88%	100
Stoneham Central Middle School	White	77.9%	678
Stoneham High School	White	75.4%	619
Stony Brook School	White	64.5%	612
Swallow/Union School	White	80.2%	328
Tewksbury Memorial High School	White	80.6%	752
The Career Academy	Hispanic	39.8%	88
The Children's Way Preschool	White	77.8%	63
Thomas Ditson School	White	70.4%	557
Thomas R. Plympton Elementary School	Hispanic	41.1%	353
Thompson School	White	62.9%	502
Thoreau School	White	72.1%	433
Tyngsborough Elementary School	White	66.5%	752
Tyngsborough High School	White	73.2%	414
Tyngsborough Middle School	White	73.3%	400
Underwood School	White	44.8%	221
Varnum Brook School	White	79.8%	633
Vassal Lane Upper School	White	37.4%	273
Vinson-Owen Elementary School	White	66.9%	441
Wakefield Memorial High School	White	80.7%	827
Walsh Middle School	White	43.6%	789
Walter S. Parker Middle School	White	81.9%	464
Waltham Public Schools Dual Language Program	Hispanic	70.6%	214
Waltham Senior High School	Hispanic	48.3%	1,751
Walton School	White	85%	213
Washington School	Asian	42.6%	244
Watertown High School	White	55.4%	733
Watertown Middle School	White	58.1%	532
Wayland High School	White	64.7%	824
Wayland Middle School	White	69.6%	621
Webster School	Hispanic	64.4%	329
West Intermediate School	White	82.9%	292
West Somerville Neighborhood School	White	62.5%	371
Westford Academy	White	63%	1,525
Weston High School	White	61.2%	639
Weston Middle School	White	56.3%	444
Willard School	White	78.5%	446
William F. Stanley Elementary School	Hispanic	42.6%	383
William Pittaway Elementary School	White	39%	82
Williams School	White	44.6%	231
Wilmington High School	White	81.9%	656
Wilmington Middle School	White	83.7%	631
Wilson Middle School	White	72.5%	778
Winchester High School	White	68.8%	1,383
Winn Brook School	White	53%	434
Winter Hill Community School	Hispanic	49.3%	422
Winthrop L. Chenery Middle School	White	61.6%	1,371
Winthrop School	White	82.8%	383
Wm. Diamond Middle School	Asian	44.2%	942
Woburn High School	White	67.1%	1,178
Woburn Street School	White	79.8%	425
Wood End Elementary School	White	85.4%	246
Woodland School	White	64.1%	320
Woodville School	White	71.7%	427
Zervas School	White	44.1%	406