Alice M Barrows

As an average-sized elementary-level community in Reading, Massachusetts, Alice M Barrows caters to 365 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Reading.

Alice M Barrows is one of 9 schools operated by Reading, a district that instructs 3,836 students overall.

Demographically, Alice M Barrows logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $130,847 per year, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Middlesex County's 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), Alice M Barrows is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Walter S Parker Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 3%: 377 students in 2018 compared to 365 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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