Beethoven Elementary School

Beethoven Elementary School is a primary school of low-enrollment scale in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, operated by Boston, instructing 287 students in grades pre-K through 2. By comparison, Massachusetts's public schools average about 381 students each, so Beethoven Elementary School sits 25% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 109 schools in Boston (46,437 students total), Beethoven Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Beethoven Elementary School logs that 37% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 30% Black, 24% White, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. The state averages about 12.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $95,631 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Beethoven Elementary School is one of 157 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 75,679 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ohrenberger School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Beethoven Elementary School.

Beethoven Elementary School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Beethoven Elementary School has contracted 11%, going from 324 students in 2018 to 287 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 40% to 24%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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