Adams Elementary School

Adams Elementary School, a tight-knit elementary-level community in East Boston, Massachusetts, part of Boston, hosts 237 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Massachusetts's public schools average about 381 students each, so Adams Elementary School sits 38% below that benchmark.

Adams Elementary School is one of 109 schools operated by Boston, a district that hosts 46,437 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Adams Elementary School records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment; the rest reads as 16% White, 5% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Adams Elementary School shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.0:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate median household earnings sit near $95,631, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Suffolk County runs 157 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,679 students), of which Adams Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: McKay K-8 School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Adams Elementary School.

Adams Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Adams Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 19% since 2018, when it stood at 291 (now 237). Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 7.0:1 in 2025.

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