Alice A Macomber

Alice A Macomber is a small elementary school. Its address is in Westport, Massachusetts. Students in pre-K through kindergarten attend, and enrollment is 163 students. The typical figure for elementary schools in Massachusetts is about 381 students.

Enrollment across the 3 schools in Westport totals 1,515 students.

About 91% of the student body at Alice A Macomber is White. Other students are 4% multiracial and 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Bristol County residents are about 77% White. The school's diversity index is 17%, meaning two students picked at random have a 17% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

The teaching staff at Alice A Macomber is 10.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 15.0:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 12.2:1 average for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Within Bristol County, the median household income is $85,625, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. In all, Bristol County has 142 public schools and roughly 80,897 students.

The school nearest to Alice A Macomber is Westport Elementary, at a distance of about 2.1 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, reported enrollment went from 345 to 163. Such a large difference may reflect a change in the grades served. By 2024-25, the school had 15.0 students per teacher, compared with 12.3 in 2020-21.

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