Barrett Russell Early Childhood Center

Barrett Russell Early Childhood Center sits in Brockton, Massachusetts, and is classified as an elementary school. It teaches 209 students in pre-K. Elementary schools in Massachusetts have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 45% lower.

Brockton runs 24 schools with a combined 15,280 students. Barrett Russell Early Childhood Center is one of them.

The share of Black students at Barrett Russell Early Childhood Center is 68%, a majority. The school is also 18% Hispanic, 8% White, and 4% multiracial. That is higher than the 8% Black share among all Plymouth County residents. A diversity index of 50% means there is a 50% chance two randomly chosen students at Barrett Russell Early Childhood Center are from different groups.

The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.5:1. The school has 15.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 12.2:1 average for elementary schools in Massachusetts is 1.3 students per teacher.

For Plymouth County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $114,201 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Barrett Russell Early Childhood Center, Plymouth County has 141 public schools.

Barrett Russell Early Childhood Center is about 0.5 miles from Louis F Angelo Elementary, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools.

Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 38% rise, from 152 to 209. Its ratio of students to teachers was 10.9:1 in 2020-21, and 13.5:1 in 2024-25.

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