Arthur D Healey

In Somerville, Massachusetts, Arthur D Healey is a medium-sized elementary school. A total of 482 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 8. The average for elementary schools in Massachusetts is about 381 students, so this school is 27% bigger than average.

Somerville enrolls 4,952 students in 11 schools, including Arthur D Healey.

No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Arthur D Healey. The largest is Hispanic students, at 48%. Next come 28% White, 15% Black, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. That compares with about 9% Hispanic among all Middlesex County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 66% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Arthur D Healey employs 40.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 11.8:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Massachusetts average 12.2:1.

allk12 grades Arthur D Healey a C. The grade compares the school only with Massachusetts public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.

Middlesex County has about 1,638,365 residents, and the median household income is $130,847, about 60% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. In all, Middlesex County has 386 public schools and roughly 215,896 students.

Missituk Elementary School is the closest public school, about 0.4 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Over 4 years, Arthur D Healey's enrollment climbed 8%, to 482. The number of students per teacher rose from 10.6 to 11.8 over 4 years.

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