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Amigos School
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MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2016, while math scores are up about 3 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Amigos School
Amigos School, an average-sized elementary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the schools within Cambridge, caters to 413 students, covering grades pre-K through 8.
Within Cambridge, which oversees 17 schools and 7,027 students, Amigos School is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Amigos School records that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 32% White, 8% multiracial, 6% Black, 3% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $130,847 per year, 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Middlesex County runs 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), of which Amigos School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Martin Luther King Jr., around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
Amigos School operates from a city-core location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Amigos School has climbed 4%, going from 397 students in 2018 to 413 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 44% to 51% over that span.
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