Benjamin G Brown

Students in Somerville, Massachusetts, attend Benjamin G Brown, a low-enrollment elementary school. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 219 students. That puts enrollment 43% below the 381-student average for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

The Somerville system has 11 schools and 4,952 students.

The student body at Benjamin G Brown is 64% White. The rest of enrollment is 15% multiracial, 8% Black, 6% Hispanic, and 6% Asian. Among Middlesex County residents, the White share is about 67%. A diversity index of 55% means there is a 55% chance two randomly chosen students at Benjamin G Brown are from different groups.

Classroom staffing at Benjamin G Brown totals 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.6:1. The average for elementary schools in Massachusetts, 12.2:1, is lower.

Middlesex County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $130,847 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 60% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Public schools in Middlesex County number 386, with about 215,896 students.

About 0.5 miles separate Benjamin G Brown from the closest public school, Curtis-Tufts. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.

From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 225 to 219, a 3% decline.

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