Arthur T. Cummings Elementary School

Arthur T. Cummings Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary-level community in Winthrop, Massachusetts, part of Winthrop. The school works with 467 students in grades 3 through 5. That puts it 23% above the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 381 students.

Within Winthrop, which oversees 4 schools and 1,961 students, Arthur T. Cummings Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Arthur T. Cummings Elementary School logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 3% Black, 2% Native American. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 46% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Suffolk County shows median household earnings sit near $95,631, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Arthur T. Cummings Elementary School is one of 157 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 75,679 students).

Winthrop High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Arthur T. Cummings Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Arthur T. Cummings Elementary School has expanded 3%, going from 454 students in 2018 to 467 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 17% to 0%. Class-load math has fell: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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